Title: The Romanov empire and nationalism : essays in the methodology of historical research /
Authors: Miller, A. I. 1959-
Publisher: Central European University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Nationalism Russia.; Russia History
Abstract: "Bringing empire back is an important change in the new approach to the history of nationalism in general. We can observe this trend not only in the history of the Russian Empire. The history of empire as the history of interaction of multiple agents, as a field where alternative strategies of identification and alternative nation-building projects competed - often with unpredictable results - is by definition hostile to all sorts of national narratives, which invariably focus on a single actor, that is, a particular national movement. It is exactly the focus on the interactions of multiple agents, that is concerned with loyalties, identity formation and nationalist agenda with their possible alternative outcomes that allows the student to grasp the fabric of imperial history."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: The history of the Russian empire : in search for scope and paradigm -- Russification or Russifications? -- Identity and loyalty in the language policy of the Romanov Empire at her western borderland -- The Romanov Empire and the Jews -- "Official nationality?" : a reassessment of Count Sergei Uvarov's triad in the context of nationalism politics -- The empire and the nation in the imagination of Russian nationalism -- The testament of the all-Russian idea.