Russia's Orient

"... the first study of the Russian Empire in English which attempts in a sophisticated way, using the latest developments in colonial studies, to deal not only with imperial rule but with the mutual encounter with the non-Russian peoples.... a new paradigm for looking at the imperial history of tsarist Russia." -- Ronald Grigor Suny"... ambitious, wide-ranging, and ultimately provocative... " -- Slavic Review"This excellent volume draws on the expertise of both young and established specialists... the volume is a pleasure to read." -- American Historical Review"... a major step toward 'discovering Russian Asia'... a job well done." -- The Russian ReviewRussia's Orient investigates the relationship between the Russian Empire and the non-Russian peoples of its southern and eastern borderlands from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.

Daniel Brower is Professor of History at the University of California--Davis. He is author of The Russian City between Tradition and Modernity. Edward J. Lazzerini is Professor of History at the University of New Orleans. He has published extensively on the history of European Russia's major Turkic peoples.

Preface

ix

Introduction

xi

Note on Transliteration and Terminology

xxi

PART ONE Empire and Orient

1

(162)

``Ignoble Savages and Unfaithful Subjects'': Constructing Non-Christian Identities in Early Modern Russia

9

(18)

Michael Khodarkovsky

Naturalists versus Nations: Eighteenth-Century Russian Scholars Confront Ethnic Diversity

27

(31)

Yuri Slezkine

Empire and Citizenship

58

(22)

Dov Yaroshevski

Nineteenth-Century Russian Mythologies of Caucasian Savagery

80

(21)

Susan Layton

From Savagery to Citizenship: Caucasian Mountaineers and Muslims in the Russian Empire

101

(14)

Austin Lee Jersild

Islam and Ethnicity: Russian Colonial Policy in Turkestan

115

(23)

Daniel Brower

Russian Orientalism at an Impasse: Tsarist Education Policy and the 1910 Conference on Islam

138

(25)

Robert Geraci

PART TWO Frontier Encounters

163

(148)

Local Accommodation and Resistance to Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Crimea

169

(19)

Edward J. Lazzerini

Representations of Russia in Central Asian Jadid Discourse

188

(15)

Adeeb Khalid

Historical Memory, Cultural Identity, and Change: Mirza `Abd al-`Aziz Sami's Representation of the Russian Conquest of Bukhara

203

(24)

Jo-Ann Gross

Crossing Boundaries: The Trading Frontiers of the Terek Cossacks

227

(22)

Thomas M. Barrett

Barimta: Nomadic Custom, Imperial Crime

249

(22)

Virginia Martin

Constructing an Islamic Identity: The Case of Elyshevo Village in the Nineteenth Century

271

(21)

Agnes Kefeli

Empire and Savagery: The Politics of Primitivism in Late Imperial Russia

292

(19)

Bruce Grant

Conclusion

311

(6)

Bibliography

317

(16)

Contributors

333

(2)

Index

335

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