Empire speaks out
Subtitle: languages of rationalization and self-description in the Russian Empire
By: edited by Ilya Gerasimov, Jan Kusber, and Alexander Semyonov.
Contributors: Gerasimov, Ilʹi︠a︡.; Kusber, Jan.; Semyonov, Alexander.
Series: Russian history and culture -- v. 1
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789004175716
Subjects: Cultural pluralism -- Russia -- History; Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History; Rationalization (Psychology) -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History; Self-perception -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History; Language and culture -- Russia; Discourse analysis -- Russia; Russia -- Ethnic relations; Russia -- Social conditions; Russia -- Politics and government; Russia -- History -- Sources
Genres: Sources
Notes: "Published ... within the collective research project Languages of Self Description and Representation in the Russian Empire"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Defining empire in a dialogue; title: pt. 2. The challenge of unification and resistance; title: Governance, education, and the problems of empire in the age of Catherine II / Jan Kusber; title: "Us" and "them" : Polish self-descriptions and perceptions of the Russian Empire between homogeneity and diversity (1815-1863) /  Hans-Christian Petersen; title: Siberian middle ground : languages of rule and accommodation on the Siberian frontier / Sergey Glebov; title: pt. 3. The challenge of transformation and rationalization; title: Russian physical anthropology of the nineteenth-early twentieth centuries : imperial race, colonial other, degenerate types, and the Russian racial body / Marina Mogilner; title: "The real and live ethnographic map of Russia" : the Russian Empire in the mirror of the State Duma / Alexander Semyonov; title: Redefining empire : social engineering in late imperial Russia / Ilya Gerasimov.