On Parallel Tracks at Different Speeds: Historiographies of Imperial Russia and the Globalized World around 1900
Journal: Global and European Studies Institute (GESI), Universität Leipzig
Year: 2020

Elaborating on the history of nineteenth-century Russia, this article argues that world-regional histories and the global history approach benefit from each other. Global history has to be informed by source-based inquiries in spaces where the regional and the global meet. In the past three decades historians of nineteenth-century Russia and global historians have been affected by related imperatives: historians of Russia deconstructed a russocentric view of Russia’s past which veiled the divers