Ethnic and National Issues in Russian and East European History

Informationen zum Autor VLADIMIR P. BULDAKOV Vice-Chairman of the Academic Council of the 'History of the Revolutions in Russia' Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences and General Secretary of the International Commission on the History of the October RevolutionMARJAN DRNOVSEK Member of the Institute for Slovene Emigration Studies, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and ArtsVLADIMIR FEDIUK Professor of Russian History, Iarosalavl' State UniversityLIUDMILA GATAGOVA Research Fellow, Institute of History, Russian Academy of SciencesMICHAEL GELB Member of the Academic Publications Branch at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum MINTON F. GOLDMAN Professor of Russian and East European Politics, Northeastern University, Boston, MassERICH HABERER Lecturer in German and Russian History, University of TorontoAUSTIN JERSILD Assistant Professor of History, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VirginiaKRISTINA KALLEINEN Senior Assistant, Departments of Political History, University of HelsinkiJOHN D. KLIER Corob Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College, LondonAUVO KOSTIAINEN Senior Lecturer in General History, University of Turka, FinlandANTTI KUJALA Senior Lecturer in Finnish and Russian History, University of HelsinkiCLAIRE NOLTE Associate Professor of History, Manhattan College, New York CityTOIVO U.RAUN Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, BloomingtonAZADE-AYSE RORLICH Associate Professor of Russian History, University of Southern California, Los AngelesALEKSANDR USHAKOV Research Fellow, Centre of Political Economic History, Russian Independent Institute of National and Social Problems, MoscowSTEPHEN VELYCHENKO Lecturer in History, University of TorontoPETER R. WEISENSEL Lecturer in Russian and German History, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MinnesotaNANCY M. WINGFIELD Assistant Professor of History, Northern Illinois University Klappentext Russia and the former Soviet Union, and the lands of the former Hapsburg Empire have an extraordinarily complex and varied pattern of ethnic settlement which has extended a great influence of their historical development. This multi-authored volume seeks new interpretations and confronts issues as diverse as the political role of Czech gymnastic clubs, Russian-Muslim relations in the Russian Empire, the ethnic factor in Stalin's purges, and the nature of Russian imperialism in Finland. Zusammenfassung Russia and the former Soviet Union! and the lands of the former Hapsburg Empire have an extraordinarily complex and varied pattern of ethnic settlement which has extended a great influence of their historical development. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's Introduction Notes on the Contributors Preface Ethnic and National Issues in Russian and East European History: An Introduction; J.Morison The Russian Empire and the Caucasus: The Genesis of Ethnic Conflicts; L.Gatagova Imperial Russification: Dagestani Mountain Dwellers in Russian Exile, 1877-83; A.L.Jersild Russian-Muslim Inter-Ethnic Relations in Russian Turkestan in the Last Years of the Empire; P.R.Weisensel Sultangaliev and Islam; A.Rorlich Local Officialdom and National Movements in Imperial Russia: Administrative Shortcomings and Under-government; S.Velchenko The Nature of Russian Imperialism in Finland during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; K.Kalleinen Finland and the Russian Revolution of 1905; A.Kujala The Nationalities Question in the Baltic Provinces, 1905-17; T.U.Raun The Russian Jewish Intelligentsia and the Search for National Identity; J.D.Klier Emancipation and Revolution: Jewish Women in the Nihilist and Populist Intelligentsia of Nineteenth-century Russia; E.Harberer The Nationalities Policy of the Whites in the South of Russia in the Civil War Period; A.Ushakov & V.Fediuk Ethnicity During the Ezhovshchina: A Historiography; M.Gelb The Finns of Soviet Karelia as a Target of Stalin's Terror; A.Kostianen...

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General Editor's Introduction Notes on the Contributors Preface Ethnic and National Issues in Russian and East European History: An Introduction; J.Morison The Russian Empire and the Caucasus: The Genesis of Ethnic Conflicts; L.Gatagova Imperial Russification: Dagestani Mountain Dwellers in Russian Exile, 1877-83; A.L.Jersild Russian-Muslim Inter-Ethnic Relations in Russian Turkestan in the Last Years of the Empire; P.R.Weisensel Sultangaliev and Islam; A.Rorlich Local Officialdom and National Movements in Imperial Russia: Administrative Shortcomings and Under-government; S.Velchenko The Nature of Russian Imperialism in Finland during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; K.Kalleinen Finland and the Russian Revolution of 1905; A.Kujala The Nationalities Question in the Baltic Provinces, 1905-17; T.U.Raun The Russian Jewish Intelligentsia and the Search for National Identity; J.D.Klier Emancipation and Revolution: Jewish Women in the Nihilist and Populist Intelligentsia of Nineteenth-century Russia; E.Harberer The Nationalities Policy of the Whites in the South of Russia in the Civil War Period; A.Ushakov & V.Fediuk Ethnicity During the Ezhovshchina: A Historiography; M.Gelb The Finns of Soviet Karelia as a Target of Stalin's Terror; A.Kostianen The Imperial Mentality and Psychology in the USSR and its Consequences; V.P.Buldakov Politics on the Parallel Bars: Gymnastic Clubs in the Czech Lands to 1914; C.Nolte Reconstruction of the Other: Continuity and Change in Czech-Sudeten German Relations since the 'Velvet Revolution'; N.M.Wingfield Roots and Causes of the Division of Czechoslovakia; M.F.Goldman Slovenian Emigrants and Europe; M.Drnovsek Index

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• Authors: John Morison
• Assisted by: Morison (Editor), J Morison (Editor), J. Morison (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2000
• EAN: 9780333695500
• ISBN: 978-0-333-69550-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: International Council for Central and East European Studies; International Council for Cent; International Council for Central and East European Studies; International Council for Cent
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