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Remembering Tolstoyans: The Soviet/Russian Independent Peace Movement, in Search of a Russian Historical Tradition of Pacifism
At the end of the 19th century, the Russian pacifist movement emerged on the social base of religious dissidents and under the leadership of the...
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An Avoidable Dependency? Russian Gas and German Complacency in the History of East–West Energy Relations
How dependent were Germany and the European Union as a whole on Russian gas, and what lines can be traced in the historical development of energy...
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The Russian Revolution as Utopian “Leap”: The Socialist “New Person”
Ernst Bloch argued for seeing beyond reality that is “merely factual” toward the “not-yet-become,” the “ocean of possibility” beyond “our customary...
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The Russian Backdrop to Dobzhansky’s Genetics and the Origin of Species
Theodosius Dobzhansky was one of the principal ‘founding fathers' of the modern ‘synthetic theory of evolution' and the ‘biological species' concept,...
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History and Myth in Pictorial Narratives of the Russian 'Patriotic War', 1812-1914
This book reveals that the visual narrative of the events of the Russian campaign of 1812 was inextricably linked to Russia's search for national...
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Post-Soviet Openness to the West in Russian History Textbooks
The recent historical education policy for Russian schools intends to establish a single historical master-narrative that offers a uniform...
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German Advertisements in the Late Russian Empire as a Reflection of Consumer Policies, Culture, and Communication
There has been very little research done into different historical perspectives on advertising in the Russian Empire beyond merely their economic...
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Beyond Analogy: Historical Framing Analysis of Russian Political Discourse
This chapter examines “historical framing” both as a form of discourse analysis and as a conceptualisation of how political and media actors conflate...
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The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917 Libel, Persecution, Reaction
This book represents a new reading of a key moment in the history of East European Jewry, namely the period preceding the collapse of the Russian...
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Swaying in Three Directions: Ilya Galant in Russian/Ukrainian-Jewish Historiography
This article explores the life and work of an important but little-known Jewish-Russian-Ukrainian historian and political liberal, Ilya Galant, and...
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Russian Historiography and the Greek Revolution: Trends and Interpretations (1821–2021)
This chapter explores the evolution of Russian historiography of the Greek Revolution from the first journalistic writings on the topic to the...
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Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891): An Irrepressible Russian Mathematician
Until well into the twentieth century, women had to fight for their right to education. The few who managed to achieve something significant in their...
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The Russian Army and the Jews at the Start of the Twentieth Century
This chapter surveys the prewar situation, providing the necessary background for understanding the army command’s behavior in 1914–1917. This...
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Russian Governors, Governors General, and Viceroys (1700–1855)
This chapter examines how territorial administration was structured in the Russian Empire over a long timeframe running from the eighteenth century...
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Slavery and Serfdom in Muscovy and the Russian Empire
This chapter aims to assess forms of strong asymmetric social dependency in early modern Russia, especially with respect to slaves, servants, and...
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The Russian Army Command and the Negative Stereotype of the Jew
This chapter surveys the negative stereotypes that contributed to the army’s adverse approach toward the Jews. This chapter deals with the military...
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Russian Affinities and Its Correspondences
These next two chapters look at the influence of Russian art beyond the immediate sphere of the former Soviet Union. In this Chapter, Part One looks...
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Structural Problems, Personal Failure or Just Contingency? The End of the Russian Empire
In his paper Matthias Stadelmann takes up the often asked question why the Russian autocracy, considered being one of the greatest, mightiest and...
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“Threatening Livelihoods”: Nordic Enemy Images of Peddlers from the Russian Empire
This chapter explores Nordic press portrayals of four mobile groups from the multi-ethnic Russian Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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Leading the Workers, Leading the Peasants: The Russian Revolution 1897–1921
The Bolsheviks imagined themselves leading a nineteenth-century revolution, a proletarian revolution of organised workers. That they did, but the...