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Nicholas I: Tsar, Nobility, and People Against Napoleon
Alongside the 332 paintings of the Russian generals who took part in the campaigns of 1812–1814 for the War Gallery, Dawe completed portraits of four...
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Marie Curie (1867–1934): Pioneer of Nuclear Physics
Few people are aware that Marie Curie, probably the world's most famous scientist to this day, was officially Russian and thus a compatriot of Sofia...
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The Russian Revolution and Polish Communism in the Interwar Era
Krasucki offers insights into the history of the beginnings of Polish communism and its relations with Lenin and the Russian Revolution. He points...
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Conclusion
The conclusion sums up the issues discussed in the book. The hostile attitude of the military command and of Russian soldiers is explained in the...
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Ritualized Hospitality: The Negotiations of the Riga Capitulation and the Adventus of Boris Sheremetev in July 1710
The inseparable connection between hospitality and hostility is a central characteristic of hospitality. This article takes up this aspect and...
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Holocaust Remembrance, the Cult of the War, and Memory Laws in Putin’s Russia
The chapter examines the Russian laws that regulate collective representations of the past and commemorative practices in the context of the conflict...
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From Mistrust to Hostility: Perceptions of the Russian Revolutions Among French Political Circles (1917–1919)
Dessberg recalls how the February revolution was unanimously viewed among the French political circles and military staff as a political, but also...
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Simko, Competing Nationalisms, and the Great War
This chapter focuses on Simko’s activities during the First World War. When the war commenced, Simko was an ally of Czarist Russia. When Russia...
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The Russo-Japanese War and Modern International Society
The significance and reverberations of the Russo-Japanese War, the first in which a Western power had been defeated by an Asian nation, is the focus...
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Shakak Tribe and the Rise of Simko
This chapter presents a brief history of Simko’s tribe, the Shakak. The chapter goes on to discuss Simko’s political career after Iranian authorities...
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Frontiers of Revolution and Empire in the Middle East
Looking back at the beginning of the twentieth century, whether one sees the grandeur and optimism of the belle époque or the decadence and pessimism...
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Visualizing Stalinist Space: The 1951 Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools
This chapter offers a close critical analysis of the structure, design, and content of the Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools,...
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Introduction
The introduction poses the issues examined in the book, namely: (1) Why did Russian generals and soldiers, unlike their European colleagues, consider...
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Ethnographic Museum on the Border Between Europe and Asia
In 1953, when Soviet dictator Stalin(person)Stalin, Joseph died his most trusted secret service chief, Lavrentiy Beria, was executed. As a junior...
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Encounters Beyond Front Lines: Prisoners of War and Locals in the Habsburg Empire During the First World War
Focusing especially on Russian prisoners of war (POWs) in the Austrian portion of the Habsburg Empire, this chapter analyzes the consequences of...
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“A Successful Method”: The Chinese Reception of the Russian Revolutionary Model in the 1920s
Capisani provides insights on the Russian Revolution and its adaptation in China, stressing the impact it had on the Nationalist Party and on its...
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“The Jewish Question” and the Political Situation in Russia
“The Jewish Question” and the Political Situation in Russia adopts a broad perspective, contextualizing the Jewish issue within the framework of the...
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The Second Russo-Persian War and the Treaty of Torkmanchay (1826–1828)
In April, 1826, reports spread that Fath ‘Ali Shah had ordered several of his sons to gather troops in their respective provinces and join him in...
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Of Homelands and Revolutions
Civil society associations in late nineteenth-century Calcutta engaged in the circulation of liberalism and socialism. Those associations were...
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The Relationship Between George Evelyn Hutchinson and Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadsky: Roots and Consequences of a Biogeochemical Approach
Focusing on the relationship between two important scientists in the development of ecological thought during the first half of the twentieth...
