Orientalism and Empire of Russia

by David-Fox, Michael; Holquist, Peter; Martin, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9780893573331
• ISBN10: 0893573337
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: Slavica Pub

Table of Contents

Russia's Orient, Russia's West	3
The Orientalism Debate
1. Russian History and the Debate over Orientalism
ADEEB KHALID	23
2. On Russian Orientalism A Response to Adeeb Khalid
NATHANIEL KNIGHT	32
3. Does Russian Orientalism Have a Russian Soul? A Contribution to the Debate between Nathaniel Knight and Adeeb Khalid
MARIA TODOROVA	47
Orientology and the Study of Empire
4. Catherinian Chinoiserie
DAVID SCHIMMELPENNICK VAN DER OYE	61
5. Russia's First "Orient" Characterizing the Crimea in 1787
SARA DICKINSON	85
6. European, National and (Anti-)Imperial
The Formation of Academic Oriental Studies in Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Russia
VERA TOLZ	107
7. Between Local and Inter-Imperial
Russian Imperial History in Search of Scope and Paradigm
ALEXEI MILLER	135
Imperial Practices and Experiences
8. Religion and Russification
Russian Language in the Catholic Churches of the "Northwest Provinces" after 1863
THEODORE R. WEEKS	157
9. Did the Government Seek to Russify Lithuanians and Poles in the Northwest Territory after the Uprising of 1863-64?
DARIUS STALIUNAS	181
10. Russification and the Bureaucratic Mind in the Russian Empire's Northwest Region in the 1860's
MIKHAIL DOLBILOV	199
11. The Ambiguities of Russification
ANDREAS KAPPELER	227
12. Caught in the Crossfire?
Russian Sectarians in the Caucasian Theater of War, 1853-56 and 1877-78
NICHOLAS B. BREYFOGLE	234
13. Liberation through Captivity
Nikolai Shipov's Adventures in the Imperial Borderlands
DANIEL BROWER AND SUSAN LAYTON	270
14. Bondage and Emancipation across Cultural Borderlands
Some Reflections and Extensions
JAMES F. BROOKS	291
15. The Dilemmas of Enlightenment in the Eastern Borderlands
The Theater and Library in Tbilisi
AUSTIN JERSILD AND NELI MELKADZE	295
16. Kazakh Oath-Taking in Colonial Courtrooms
Legal Culture and Russian Empire-Building
VIRGINIA MARTIN	317
Along the Borderlands of the Empire
(A Conclusion)
DANIEL BROWER	349
Information on Contributors	361