Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917

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Investigates the impact of the Russian Empire on its non-Russian peoples of the southern and eastern borderlands from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. This title includes the study of ethnic and religious differences that emerged from the Russian encounter with peoples whose cultures differed profoundly from their own. Contents Preface Introduction A Note on Transliteration and Terminology Part One: Empire and Orient 1. “Ignoble Savages and Unfaithful Subjects Constructing Non-Christian Identities in Early Modem Russia 2. Naturalists versus Nations: Eighteenth- Century Russian Scholars Confront Ethnic Diversity 3. Empire and Citizenship 4. Nineteenth-Century Russian Mythologies of Caucasian Savagery 5. From Savagery to Citizenship: Caucasian Mountaineers and Muslims in the Russian Empire 6. Islam and Ethnicity: Russian Colonial Policy in Turkestan 7. Russian Orientalism at an Impasse: Tsarist Education Policy and the 1910 Conference on Islam Part Two: Frontier Encounters 8. Local Accommodation and Resistance to Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Crimea 9. Representations of Russia in Central Asian Jadid Discourse 10. Historical Memory, Cultural Identity, and Change: Mirza ‘Abd al-'Aziz Sami’s Representation of the Russian Conquest of Bukhara 11. Crossing Boundaries: The Trading Frontiers of the Terek Cossacks 12. Barimta: Nomadic Custom, Imperial Crime 13. Constructing an Islamic Identity: The Case of Elyshevo Village in the Nineteenth Century 14. Empire and Savagery: The Politics of Primitivism in Late Imperial Russia Conclusion Bibliography Contributors Index