Description
Book SynopsisA New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700-1918 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces, societies, and institutions that existed on the territory of today's Northern Eurasia, until recently part of the USSR. Traditional concepts and genealogies that frame human experience have to be avoided or reframed: this is not the story of a certain present-day state or people evolving through consecutive historical stages. Rather, the book's point of departure is a modern analytical approach to the problem of human diversity as a fundamental social condition. In the form of cooperation and confrontation, various attempts to manage diversity fostered processes of societal self-organization, as new ideas, practices, and institutions were developed virtually from scratch or radically altered when borrowed. Essentially, this is the story of individuals and societies who creatively responded to their natural and social environments and sought answers to uni
Table of Contents
1. From the ‘Gunpowder Empire’ to the ‘Modern State’ 2. From the ‘Modern State’ to the ‘Modern Empire’ 3. The Modern Empire in Search of a Nation 4. Designing a National Empire 5. Empire and Revolution: The Revolutionary Movement in Imperial Society before the Era of Mass Politics 6. The Collapse of the Regime of the Russian National Empire 7. Self-Organization of the ‘Progressive Empire’ 8. The War of Globalization and the Imperial Revolution Bibliography Index
