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This volume addresses new theoretical approaches in visual and
memory studies that prompted to rethink of the photography of
Russian Turkestan of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Attempts to relate the visual unknown documentations to
postcolonial criticism also opened up new interpretive arenas,
helping to decentralize the analysis of the history of photography.
The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific
tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into
various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and
artistic contexts. Without reducing the entire argument to the
binary of 'photography and power', the authors reveal the different
modes of seeing that involve distinct cultural norms, social
practices, power relations, levels of technology, and networks for
circulating photography, and that determined the manner of its
(re)use in constructing various images of Central Asia. The volume
demonstrates that photography was the cornerstone of imperial media
governance and discourse construction in colonial Turkestan of the
tsarist and early Soviet periods. The various cases show the
complex mechanisms by which images of Turkestan were created,
remembered, or forgotten from the nineteenth until the twenty-first
century. The book should appeal to scholars of the Russian Empire
and Central Asia; of history of photography and visual culture; of
memory studies. It should be appropriate for use in upper-level
undergraduate courses, and even a broader public.
Nikolai Charushin's memoirs of his experience as a member of the
revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to
historians, but A Generation of Revolutionaries provides a
broader and more engaging look at the lives and relationships
beyond these memoirs. It shows how, after years of
incarceration, Charushin and friends thrived in Siberian exile,
raising children and contributing to science and culture there.
While Charushin's memoirs end with his return to European Russia,
this sweeping biography follows this group as they engaged in
Russia's fin de siècle society, took part in the 1917 revolution,
and struggled in its aftermath. Â A Generation of
Revolutionaries provides vibrant and deeply personal insights into
the turbulent history of Russia from the Great Reforms to the era
of Stalinism and beyond. In doing so, it tells the story of a
remarkable circle of friends whose lives balanced love, family and
career with exile, imprisonment, and revolution.
Nikolai Charushin's memoirs of his experience as a member of the
revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to
historians, but A Generation of Revolutionaries provides a broader
and more engaging look at the lives and relationships beyond these
memoirs. It shows how, after years of incarceration, Charushin and
friends thrived in Siberian exile, raising children and
contributing to science and culture there. While Charushin's
memoirs end with his return to European Russia, this sweeping
biography follows this group as they engaged in Russia's fin de
siecle society, took part in the 1917 revolution, and struggled in
its aftermath. A Generation of Revolutionaries provides vibrant and
deeply personal insights into the turbulent history of Russia from
the Great Reforms to the era of Stalinism and beyond. In doing so,
it tells the story of a remarkable circle of friends whose lives
balanced love, family and career with exile, imprisonment, and
revolution.
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