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In 1898, near the projected intersection of the Chinese Eastern
Railroad (the last leg of the Trans-Siberian) and China's Sungari
River, Russian engineers founded the city of Harbin. Between the
survey of the site and the profound dislocations of the 1917
revolution, Harbin grew into a bustling multiethnic urban center
with over 100,000 inhabitants. In this area of great natural
wealth, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and American ambitions
competed and converged, and sometimes precipitated vicious
hostilities.
Drawing on the archives, both central and local, of seven
countries, this history of Harbin presents multiple perspectives on
Imperial Russia's only colony. The Russian authorities at Harbin
and their superiors in St. Petersburg intentionally created an
urban environment that was tolerant not only toward their Chinese
host, but also toward different kinds of "Russians." For example,
in no other city of the Russian Empire were Jews and Poles, who
were numerous in Harbin, encouraged to participate in municipal
government. The book reveals how this liberal Russian policy
changed the face and fate of Harbin.
As the history of Harbin unfolds, the narrative covers a wide range
of historiographic concerns from several national histories. These
include: the role of the Russian finance minister Witte, the
building of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the origins of Stolypin's
reforms, the development of Siberia and the Russian Far East, the
1905 Revolution, the use of ethnicity as a tool of empire,
civil-military conflict, strategic area studies, Chinese
nationalism, the Japanese decision for war against the Russians,
Korean nationalism in exile, and the rise of the soybean as an
international commodity. In all these concerns, Harbin was a
vibrant source of creative, unorthodox policy and turbulent
economic and political claims.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1976.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1970.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1980.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1976.
This volume completes a program of publishing distinguished essays
on a wide range of Slavic topics.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1970.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1980.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1975.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1975.
Charles Fourier has generally been studied in relation to
particular segments of his teaching. Consequently he is known only
in one or another of the roles to which biographers or commentators
have assigned him, such as that of a social critic, a precursor of
Marx, a theoretician of the cooperative movement, or even a
progenitor of today's worldwide revolutionary
turmoil. Riasanovsky points out that two considerations make
an adequate presentation of Fourier's ideas unusually difficult.
For one thing, his thought was all of a piece, organically united
in a multibranched universal formula so that it is virtually
impossible to do justice to a period, a part, or a particular
aspect of his teaching without dealing with the whole. For another,
this formula was essentially mad and encompassed extremely bizarre
and eccentric elements. Most writers have been unprepared to admit,
let alone accept, the totality of his teaching. The primary
purpose of this book is to state Fourier's system in its own terms,
not in terms of its possible contribution to a different
intellectual orientation. Riasanovsky succeeds admirably in this
task, summarizing for the first time within one volume the essence
of Fourier's ideas, which are of an almost overwhelming profusion
in their original form. He also examines the relation of Fourier's
views to the general currents of modern thought, and delineates his
place on the intellectual map of the modern world. This title
is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates
University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate
the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing
on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1969.
Charles Fourier has generally been studied in relation to
particular segments of his teaching. Consequently he is known only
in one or another of the roles to which biographers or commentators
have assigned him, such as that of a social critic, a precursor of
Marx, a theoretician of the cooperative movement, or even a
progenitor of today's worldwide revolutionary
turmoil. Riasanovsky points out that two considerations make
an adequate presentation of Fourier's ideas unusually difficult.
For one thing, his thought was all of a piece, organically united
in a multibranched universal formula so that it is virtually
impossible to do justice to a period, a part, or a particular
aspect of his teaching without dealing with the whole. For another,
this formula was essentially mad and encompassed extremely bizarre
and eccentric elements. Most writers have been unprepared to admit,
let alone accept, the totality of his teaching. The primary
purpose of this book is to state Fourier's system in its own terms,
not in terms of its possible contribution to a different
intellectual orientation. Riasanovsky succeeds admirably in this
task, summarizing for the first time within one volume the essence
of Fourier's ideas, which are of an almost overwhelming profusion
in their original form. He also examines the relation of Fourier's
views to the general currents of modern thought, and delineates his
place on the intellectual map of the modern world. This title
is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates
University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate
the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing
on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1969.
This book investigates the question of Russian identity, looking at
changes and continues over a huge territory, many centuries, and a
variety of political, social, and economic structures. Its main
emphases are on the struggle against the steppe peoples, Orthodox
Christianity, autocratic monarchy, and Westernization.
Although primarily known as an eminent historian of Russia,
Nicholas Riasanovsky has been a longtime student of European
Romanticism. In this book, Riasanovsky offers a refreshing and
appealing new interpretation of Romanticism's goals and influence.
He searches for the origins of the dazzling vision that made the
great early Romantic poets in England and Germany--Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Novalis, and Friedrich Schlegel--look at the world in a
new way. He stresses that Romanticism was produced only by Western
Christian civilization, with its unique view of humankind's
relationship to God. The Romantic's frantic and heroic striving
after unreachable goals mirrors Christian beliefs in human
inability to adequately address God, speak to God, or praise God.
Further, Riasanovsky argues that Romantic thought had important
political implications, playing a key role in the rise of
nationalism in Europe. Offering a historical examination of an area
often limited to literary analysis, this book gracefully makes a
larger historical statement about the nature and centrality of
European Romanticism.
The image of Peter the Great casts a long shadow in modern Russian thought and culture. The image of this militaristic ruler, founder of St Petersburg, and czar of all Russia from 1689-1725 has been central to Russian history, literature, and art since the early 1700s. Riasanovsky, one of the foremost historians of Russia, traces the development of this image from 1700 to the present. Drawing examples from Russian historical accounts, literature, folklore, and the arts, he shows how the use of the image of Peter has reflected the changing cultural and political values of the Russian people.
Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825 - 1855
developed from a much more modest interest in Uvarov's doctrine of
"Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality." During the author's study
of the Slavophiles in particular, he became increasing aware of the
paucity of our knowledge of this so-called Official Nationality
frequently combined with a deprecating attitude toward it. Unable
to find a satisfactory analysis of the subject, the author
proceeded to write his own. This book largely organized itself: an
exposition and discussion of the ideology naturally occupied the
central position, preceded by a brief treatment of its proponents.
But Official Nationality reached beyond intellectual circles,
lectures and books; indeed, for thirty years it ruled Russia.
Therefore, the author found it necessary to write a chapter on the
emperor who, in effect, personally dominated and governed the
country throughout his reign; to add a section on the imperial
family, the ministers, and some other high officials to an account
of the intellectuals who supported the state; and to sketch the
application of Official Nationalty both in home affairs and in
foreign policy. In this manner this title is able to bring the
state doctrine and its role in Russian history into proper focus.
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