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Defining the Others, "them", in relation to one's own reference group, "us", has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities. This volume examines the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the external and internal Others in Russia from the 16th century Muscovy to the collapse of the Russian empire.
List of contents
Preface
Kati Parppei and Bulat Rakhimzianov
Introduction: Images, Otherness, and Images of the Others
Kati Parppei and Bulat Rakhimzianov
Part One: Creating Prototypes
Section Summary
David M. Goldfrank
Varieties of Otherness in Ivan IV's Muscovy: Relativity, Multiplicity, and Ambiguity
Charles J. Halperin
The Depiction of "Us" and "Them" in the Illuminated Codex of the 1560s-1570s
Jaakko Lehtovirta
The Image of the Other: The Perception of Tatars by Russian Intellectuals and Officials in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (Chroniclers, Diplomats, Voivodes, and Writers)
Maksim Moiseev
From Inozemtsy to Inovertsy and Novokreshchenye: Images of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Ricarda Vulpius
Part Two: Categorizing the "Internal Others"
Section Summary
Michael Khodarkovsky
From "Sovereign's Strangers" to "Our Savages": Otherness of Siberian Indigenous Peoples in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia
Yuri Akimov
The Russians and the Oirats (Dzungars) in Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Contacts and Images of the "Other" in the Era of Empire Building
Vladimir Puzanov
"In a Menagerie of Nations": Crimean Others in Travelogues, c. 1800
Nikita Khrapunov
Visually Integrating the Other Within: Imperial Photography and the Image of the Caucasus (1864-1915)
Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur
Perception of Others within One Ethnic Minority: Jewish Ethnographic Studies in the Late Russian Empire
Marina Shcherbakova
Part Three: The Other in Times of Conflict and Crisis
Section Summary
Stephen M. Norris
The Russian Imagological Bestiary: The Zoomorphic Image of the Enemy ("Other") at the Turn of the Century, 1890-1905
Anna Rezvukhina, Alena Rezvukhina, and Sergey Troitskiy
Hungry and Different-"Otherness" in Imperial Famine Relief: 1891-1892
Immo Rebitschek
"Agitators and Spies": The Enemy Image of Itinerant Russians in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1899-1900
Johanna Wassholm
The Self and the Other: Representations of the Monarchist Foe and Ally in the Satirical Press of the Russian Right (1906-1908)
Oleg Minin
The Construction of the Image of the "Other" in the Discussion of the "Yellow Peril": Chinese People in Late Imperial Russia
Andrey Avdashkin
"Own" and "Other": Soldiers, Officers, and the Fatal Zigzags of the Russian Revolution in the Last Year of the Life of General L. G. Kornilov (1870-1918)
Il'ia Rat'kovskii
Contributors
About the author
Kati Parppei is a university lecturer (title of docent) in the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. Her interests include the history of mentalities and ideas, image studies, Russian history, and borderland issues.
Bulat Rakhimzianov is currently a PhD student at University College Dublin. His research interests include the relations between the Tatar khanates and Moscow in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the uses of Tatar medieval history in contemporary historical writings and politics.
Summary
Defining the Others, “them”, in relation to one’s own reference group, “us”, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities in any given country or region. In the case of Russia, the formulation of these binary definitions – sometimes taking a form of enemy images – can be traced all the way to medieval texts, in which religion represented the dividing line. Further, the ongoing expansion of the empire transferred numerous “external others” into internal minorities. The chapters of this edited volume examine the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the Others in Russia from the 16th century Muscovy to the collapse of the Russian empire.
