Asiatic Russia : imperial power in regional and international contexts
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Asiatic Russia : imperial power in regional and international contexts
（New horizons in islamic studies (second series)）
Routledge, 2012
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Description
Although the Russian Empire has traditionally been viewed as a European borderland, most of its territory was actually situated in Asia. Imperial power was huge but often suffered from a lack of enough information and resources to rule its culturally diverse subjects, and asymmetric relations between state and society combined with flexible strategies of local actors sometimes produced unexpected results.
In Asiatic Russia, an international team of scholars explores the interactions between power and people in Central Asia, Siberia, the Volga-Urals, and the Caucasus from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, drawing on a wealth of Russian archival materials and Turkic, Persian, and Tibetan sources. The variety of topics discussed in the book includes the Russian idea of a "civilizing mission," the system of governor-generalships, imperial geography and demography, roles of Muslim and Buddhist networks in imperial rule and foreign policy, social change in the Russian Protectorate of Bukhara, Muslim reformist and national movements.
The book is essential reading for students and scholars of Russian, Central Eurasian, and comparative imperial history, as well as imperial and colonial studies and nationalism studies. It may also provide some hints for understanding today's world, where "empire" has again become a key word in international and domestic power relations.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: Russia's Eastern Expansion: Its "Mission" and the Tatars' Intermediary Role 1. The Russian Empire's Civilizing Mission in the Eighteenth Century in Comparative Perspective 2. Tatarskaia Kargala in Russia's Eastern Policies 3. The Russian Empire and the Intermediary Role of Tatars in Kazakhstan: The Politics of Cooperation and Rejection Part II: Taming Space and People: Institutions and Demography 4. Intra-Bureaucratic Debate on the Institution of Russian Governors-General in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 5. Asiatic Russia: Colonization and "Russification" in the Imperial Geography of the Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries 6. Empire and Demography in Turkestan: Numbers and the Politics of Counting Part III: Russian Power Projected beyond its Borders 7. Russo-Chinese Trade through Central Asia: Regulations and Reality 8. Muslim Networks, Imperial Power, and the Local Politics of Qajar Iran 9. Sunni-Shi'i Relations in the Russian Protectorate of Bukhara, as Perceived by the Local 'Ulama 10. The Open and Secret Diplomacy of Tsarist and Soviet Russia in Tibet: The Role of Agvan Dorzhiev (1912-1925) Part IV: Asiatic Russia as a Space for National Movements 11. Muslim Political Activity in Russian Turkestan, 1905-1916 12. On the Cultural Front Lines: Muslim Reformers and Communities in Late Imperial Russia 13. The Alash Orda's Relations with Siberia, the Urals and Turkestan: The Kazakh National Movement and the Russian Imperial Legacy
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