Asiatic Russia (eBook, ePUB)

Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts
Redaktion: Uyama, Tomohiko

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Although the Russian Empire has traditionally been viewed as a European borderland, most of its territory was actually situated in Asia. This book examines the history of the Asian parts of the Russian Empire, investigating the empire's policy toward various religions and ethnic groups. It charts its expansion and how it established its rule in the east, interacting with local actors and introducing new instituions and ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136620140
• Artikelnr.: 38269702

Autorenporträt

UYAMA Tomohiko is professor at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University. He specializes in the history of the Russian Empire and contemporary politics in Central Asia, and is the editor of Empire, Islam, and Politics in Central Eurasia (2007) and co-editor of Japan's Silk Road Diplomacy (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

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