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Russian Central Asia in the Works of Nikolai Karazin, 1842–1908 Ambivalent Triumph
“This book provides a deep reading of Nikolai Karazin’s works and his relationship with Central Asia. Elena Andreeva shows how Karazin’s prolific...
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The First Revolution of the Twentieth Century: Fears of Socialism and Anti-Labour Mobilisation in Europe After the Russian Revolution of 1905
In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe experienced labour conflicts, unprecedented in their character, intensity and scope....
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Explaining Russian foreign policy towards the EU through contrasts
This article looks at various theoretical approaches to Russia–EU relations and ways to explain the evolution and current rupture of the...
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The Historiography of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, 1819–21
This book looks at the different ways in which Russian historians and authors have thought about their country’s first Antarctic expedition (1819-21)...
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Sergei Witte and the Ship** Associations: Rethinking the Russian Empire from a Maritime Viewpoint
This study reconsiders the relations between the Russian Empire and Asia through Russian commercial ship**. Russian ship** lines suddenly began...
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Settling Down and Setting Up: Itinerant Peddlers from Russian Karelia as Shopkeepers in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Finland
The chapter analyzes mobile traders from Russian Karelia who abandoned their itinerant livelihood and settled down in Finland in the late nineteenth...
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Wisdom of the Oppressed: Finnish Colonial Complicities in the Age of the Russian Empire
This chapter analyzes the diversity of attitudes toward Russian imperial politics that developed in the Grand Duchy of Finland (1809–1917),...
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The Persistent Question of Legal Aid in the Professional Development of Russian Lawyers
Russia has always been perceived as a historical outlier in terms of its relationship to the rule of law and the western legal tradition. The pursuit...
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Alexander II and Alexander III: Vereshchagin’s 1812
During the course of the nineteenth century, the Russian narrative of the 1812 invasion changed to fit the exigencies of various rulers. Beginning in...
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Conclusions
This book explored how Napoleon’s invasion of 1812 played a significant role in defining Russian national identity. The French invasion spurred on...
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Introduction
No pre-revolutionary military event was more celebrated by Russian writers and artists than the epic of 1812, during which Napoleon advanced his...
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Australia’s Early Russian-Language Press (1912–1919)
Between 1912 and 1919, at different times, seven fortnightly Russian newspapers, legal and illegal, circulated in Queensland, most of them as organs...
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Under the Protection of Alien Wings. Russian Emigrant Mathematiciancs in Interwar France: A General Picture and Two Case Studies of Ervand Kogbetliantz and Vladimir Kosticyn
The present chapter tackles a fundamental aspect of the 1920s and evokes the situation of the political refugees in Europe by following the various...
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Characteristics of the Spread of Socialist Thought in China Prior to the Russian October Revolution
In the twentieth century, socialist thought began to spread into China in various forms. Under the specific historical conditions of that time,...
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“Special Kind of Refugees”: Assisting Armenians in Erzincan, Bayburt, and Erzurum
Over 200,000 Armenians became displaced persons during the First World War as a result of the war on the Caucasus battlefront and the genocide in the...
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Art, War, and Empire: A History
From its foundation, modern Russian identity was defined by warfare. The imperial period, indeed, began with Russia’s victory over Sweden in the...
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The Reign of Alexander I: The Myth of National Unity
The most immediate response in Russian visual culture to the French invasion came in the form of the many lubki that were released between 1812 and...
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Soviet Colonialism Reloaded: Encounters Between Russians and East Central Europeans in Contemporary Literature
The chapter analyses reciprocal representations of current and former citizens from the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia and different Eastern and...
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Nicholas II: The Centennial, Art, Spectacle, and Historical Memory
In the summer of 1912, the Russian Ministry of War hosted a number of exhibitions and festivals in commemoration of the centennial of the Battle of...