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This collection of essays addresses the challenge of modern nationalism to the tsarist Russian Empire. First appearing on the empire’s western periphery this challenge, was most prevalent in twelve provinces extending from Ukrainian lands in the south to the Baltic provinces in the north, as well as to the Kingdom of Poland. At issue is whether the late Russian Empire entered World War I as a multiethnic state with many of its age-old mechanisms run by a multiethnic elite, or as a Russian state predominantly managed by ethnic Russians. The tsarist vision of prioritizing loyalty among all subjects over privileging ethnic Russians and discriminating against non-Russians faced a fundamental problem: as soon as the opportunity presented itself, non-Russians would increase their demands and become increasingly separatist. The authors found that although the imperial government did not really identify with popular Russian nationalism, it sometimes ended up implementing policies promoted by Russian nationalist proponents. Matters addressed include native language education, interconfessional rivalry, the “Jewish question,” the origins of mass tourism in the western provinces, as well as the emergence of Russian nationalist attitudes in the aftermath of the first Russian revolution.

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Author:   Darius Staliūnas (Deputy director, Lithuanian Institute of History) ,  Yoko Aoshima (Professor of Modern European and Russian history, Kobe University, Japan)
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9789633863657

ISBN 10:   9633863651
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   31 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Transformations of Imperial Nationality Policy Inconsistently Nationalizing State: The Romanov Empire and the Ukrainian National Movement Anton Kotenko Challenges to Imperial Authorities’ Nationality Policy in the Northwest Region, 1905–15 Darius Staliūnas What Is the “Russian Cause” and Whom Does It Serve? Russian Nationalists and Imperial Bureaucracy in the Kingdom of Poland Malte Rolf Confessions in the Crossfire Interconfessional Rivalry in Lithuania after the Decree on Toleration Vilma Žaltauskaitė The Struggle between Confessional and Nationalist Groups for the Chełm-Podlasian Region: the 1905 Decree on Tolerance and Former Uniates Chiho Fukushima Transformations in Education Native Language Education in the Western Border Regions around 1905 Yoko Aoshima Politics around Universal Education in Right-bank Ukraine in the Late Tsarist Period Kimitaka Matsuzato To Sense an Empire: Russian Education Policy and the Origins of Mass Tourism in the Northwest Region Jolita Mulevičiūtė The Formation of Imperial Loyalty in the Education System in the Northwest Region in 1905–1915 Olga Mastianica The Problem of the Russian Right Right-Wing Russian Organizations in the City of Vil’na and the Northwestern Provinces, 1905–1915 Vytautas Petronis Defending the Empire in the Baltic Provinces: Russian Nationalist Visions in the Aftermath of the First Russian Revolution Karsten Brüggemann Russian Jews and the Russian Right: Why There Were no Jewish Right-Wing Politics in the Late Russian Empire? Vladimir Levin List of Contributors Index

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This volume represents a crucial and indispensable contribution to the ongoing debate on the nationalization of the late Russian empire, but it goes much further in problematizing the conceptual and practical entanglements between the analytical categories of nation and empire, as such. Therefore, the collection edited by Staliunas and Aoshima will be highly relevant for all students of nationalism and empire in Eurasia. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/tsar-the-empire-and-the-nation-dilemmas-of-nationalization-in-russias-western-borderlands-19051915-ed-darius-staliunas-and-yoko-aoshima-historical-studies-in-eastern-europe-and-eurasia-vol-v-budapest-central-european-university-press-2021-400-pp-notes-tables-index-9500-hard-bound/DACF56A93B4900FB429BE112B8AF8CE4 -- Andrei Cusco * Slavic Review *

"""This volume represents a crucial and indispensable contribution to the ongoing debate on the “nationalization” of the late Russian empire, but it goes much further in problematizing the conceptual and practical entanglements between the analytical categories of “nation” and “empire,” as such. Therefore, the collection edited by Staliunas and Aoshima will be highly relevant for all students of nationalism and empire in Eurasia."" https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/tsar-the-empire-and-the-nation-dilemmas-of-nationalization-in-russias-western-borderlands-19051915-ed-darius-staliunas-and-yoko-aoshima-historical-studies-in-eastern-europe-and-eurasia-vol-v-budapest-central-european-university-press-2021-400-pp-notes-tables-index-9500-hard-bound/DACF56A93B4900FB429BE112B8AF8CE4 -- Andrei Cusco * Slavic Review * ""The present volume appears at a moment perhaps timelier than the editors anticipated. Focusing on the so-called western borderlands, an area that comprised the German-dominated Baltic, the Ukrainian and Belarusian lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Kingdom of Poland (officially called the Vistula Land after 1863), the volume’s contributions focus on questions of nationality policy, confessional policy, education, and the Russian right in the period of the Duma monarchy. As a whole, the volume questions the significance of the constitutional changes of 1905 on nationality policy, suggesting that the willingness or unwillingness of centrally appointed officials to cooperate with nationalist politicians proved perhaps more decisive for the administration and political life of a given region than the press and religious freedoms granted along with the constitutional order."" https://brill.com/view/journals/css/57/1-2/article-p238_17.xml -- Curtis G. Murphy * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *"

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Darius Staliūnas is Deputy Director of the Lithuanian Institute of History.

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