The Russian Empire
Subtitle: A Multiethnic History
By: Andreas Kappeler ; translated by Alfred Clayton
Contributors: Clayton, Alfred
Publisher: Longman
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Harlow, England, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Rußland als Vielvölkerreich: Entstehung - Geschichte - Zerfall
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780582234161
Subjects: Ethnology -- Russia; Minorities -- Russia; Russia -- Ethnic relations; Russia -- History
Work titles: Russland als Vielvölkerreich.
Description: The "national question" and how to impose control over its diverse ethnic identities has long posed a problem for the Russian state. This major survey of Russia as a multi-ethnic empire spans the imperial years from the sixteenth century to 1917, with major consideration of the Soviet phase. It asks how Russians incorporated new territories, how they were resisted, what the character of a multi-ethnic empire was and how, finally, these issues related to nationalism.
Notes: Translation of: Russland als Vielvölkerreich

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-427) and index

Translated from German
Table of contents: label: 1
title: The mediaeval background; label: 2
title: The gathering of the lands of the Golden Horde between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; label: 3
title: Westward expansion from the seventeenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century; label: 4
title: The pre-modern Russian multi-ethnic empire; label: 5
title: Colonial expansion in Asia in the nineteenth century; label: 6
title: The national challenge; label: 7
title: The reaction of the state : policy on nationalities 1831-1904; label: 8
title: The late Tsarist multi-ethnic empire between modernization and tradition; label: 9
title: The nationalities question and the revolution; label: 10
title: Aftermath : change and continuity in the Soviet multi-ethnic empire