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Russia's Own Orient - The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods (Hardcover)
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Russia's Own Orient - The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History
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Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early
twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the
ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of
the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St.
Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between
power and knowledge, and about Europe and Asia as mere political
and cultural constructs. Their ideas anticipated the work of Edward
Said and post-colonial scholarship by half a century. The
similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical.
Said was indebted, via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied
in the Soviet Union, to the revisionist ideas of Russian
Orientologists of the fin de siecle. But why did this body of
Russian scholarship of the early twentieth century turn out to be
so innovative? Should we agree with a popular claim of the Russian
elites about their country's particular affinity with the 'Orient'?
There is no single answer to this question. The early twentieth
century was a period when all over Europe a fascination with things
'Oriental' engendered the questioning of many nineteenth-century
assumptions and prejudices. In that sense, the revisionism of
Russian Orientologists was part of a pan-European trend. And yet,
Tolz also argues that a set of political, social, and cultural
factors, which were specific to Russia, allowed its imperial
scholars to engage in an unusual dialogue with representatives of
the empire's non-European minorities. It is together that they were
able to articulate a powerful long-lasting critique of modern
imperialism and colonialism, and to shape ethnic politics in Russia
across the divide of the 1917 revolutions.
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