Russia's Own Orient - The Politics of Identity Oriental Studies in Late Imperial Early

Zusatztext Tolzâs highly informative, thought-provoking and well-researched book will be of interest to specialists and general readers interested in linguistics, history, cultural developments in Russia in the 1880sâ1920s and in the legacy of modernist ideas in the post-Soviet period. Informationen zum Autor Vera Tolz is Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Russia: Inventing the Nation (London, 2001); Russian Academicians and the Revolution: Combining Professionalism and Politics (London, 1997) and The USSR's Emerging Multiparty System (New York, 1990); she is also co-editor of Nation and Gender in Contemporary Europe (Manchester, 2005); European Democratization since 1800 (London, 2000) and The Demise of the USSR: From Communism to Independence (London, 1995). Klappentext Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time Zusammenfassung Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Russian Orientology and 'Oriental Renaissance' in Fin-de-Siÿcle Europe 1: Nation, Empire, and Regional Integration 2: Perceptions of East and West 3: Power and Knowledge 4: Critiques of European Scholarship 5: Imperial Scholars and Minority Nationalisms on the Eve of the 1917 Revolutions 6: Imagining Minorities as Nations in the 1920s Conclusion

List of contents

• Introduction: Russian Orientology and 'Oriental Renaissance' in Fin-de-Siÿcle Europe


• 1: Nation, Empire, and Regional Integration


• 2: Perceptions of East and West


• 3: Power and Knowledge


• 4: Critiques of European Scholarship


• 5: Imperial Scholars and Minority Nationalisms on the Eve of the 1917 Revolutions


• 6: Imagining Minorities as Nations in the 1920s


• Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Vera Tolz, Tolz Vera
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2011
• EAN: 9780199594443
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959444-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Medieval Eur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era