Precarious Existences: Middling Households in Moscow and the Fire of 1812, Alexander M. II Imperial Russia: A Multicultural Society and its Borderlands National Narratives in the Representation of Nineteenth-Century Russian Monarchy, Richard S. Spectacles of Subversion: Sexualized Scenarios, Gendered Discourses and Social Breakdown in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Abby M. It derives from the honoree, whose scholarly life has exhibited the blurring of traditional boundaries, whether disciplinary, generational, or national, that is represented by the contributors to this volume.Īgency and Process in Russian and Soviet History, Moshe LewinĪ Dynastic or Ethno-Dynastic Tsardom? Two Early Modern Concepts of Russia, Zenon E. The sense of community exhibited by this collection, however, is not artificial nor is it wholly imagined. The intellectual borders of Russian and Soviet history, long policed from within and without, have been breached by the creative and wide-ranging use of newly accessible archival sources that form the basis for these articles. It is fitting too that the now accepted boundaries of the Soviet era-the revolutionary decade and the first decade of transition-are subject to detailed attention and analysis. Several studies here attempt to assess the meaning of the Soviet period in terms of ideology, practices, processes and memory. Politically, of course, Marxist–Leninist ideology attempted to extend its own frontiers of Russian history. Ukrainian aspirations take a special focus, from Kyivan Rus’ to Ruthenian dreams.
Geographical dimensions are explored not through conquest but through regional responses to the center: local variants of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial policies in the Caucasus and Turkestan are complemented by Central Asian petitions for citizenship in the 1930s and Siberian healing in the 1990s. The articles stress continuity rather than ruptures and their organization emphasizes persistent factors over time, particularly across the 1917 divide. This volume attempts to extend those borders in several ways. The borders of Russian history, whether chronological, geographical, political or intellectual, have always been patrolled, have sometimes been evaded, but have never been invisible.
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