Russian Empire
Subtitle: A Multi-Ethnic History
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-22
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781315736792
Subjects: Nationalism, russia (federation); Ethnic groups
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.