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Russian Empire offers new perspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. An international team of scholars explores the connections between Russia's expansion over vast territories occupied by people of many ethnicities, religions, and political experiences and the evolution of imperial administration and vision. The fresh research reflected in this innovative volume reveals the ways in which the realities of sustaining imperial power in a multiethnic, multiconfessional, scattered, and diffuse environment inspired political imaginaries and set limits on what the state could accomplish. Taken together, these rich essays provide important new frameworks for understanding Russia's imperial geography of power.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. Preface and Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Coming into the Territory: Uncertainty and Empire
  2. pp. 1-30
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  1. part one: space
  2. p. 31
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  1. 1. Imperial Space: Territorial Thought and Practice in theEighteenth Century
  2. pp. 33-66
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  1. 2. The “Great Circle” of Interior Russia: Representations ofthe Imperial Center in the Nineteenth and Early TwentiethCenturies
  2. pp. 67-93
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  1. 3. How Bashkiria Became Part of European Russia,1762–1881
  2. pp. 94-124
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  1. 4. Mapping the Empire’s Economic Regions from the Nineteenthto the Early Twentieth Century
  2. pp. 125-138
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  1. 5. State and Evolution: Ethnographic Knowledge, EconomicExpediency, and the Making of the USSR, 1917–1924
  2. pp. 139-166
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  1. part two: people
  2. p. 167
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  1. 6. Changing Conceptions of Difference, Assimilation, and Faith inthe Volga-Kama Region, 1740–1870
  2. pp. 169-214
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  1. 7. Thinking Like an Empire: Estate, Law, and Rights in the EarlyTwentieth Century
  2. pp. 196-217
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  1. 8. From Region to Nation: The Don Cossacks 1870–1920
  2. pp. 218-238
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  1. 9. Bandits and the State: Designing a “Traditional” Culture ofViolence in the Russian Caucasus
  2. pp. 239-267
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  1. 10. Representing “Primitive Communists”: Ethnographic andPolitical Authority in Early Soviet Siberia
  2. pp. 268-292
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  1. part three: institutions
  2. p. 293
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  1. 11. From the Zloty to the Ruble: The Kingdom of Poland in theMonetary Politics of the Russian Empire
  2. pp. 295-319
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  1. 12. The Muslim Question in Late Imperial Russia
  2. pp. 320-347
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  1. 13. The Zemstvo Reform, the Cossacks, and Administrative Policyon the Don, 1864–1882
  2. pp. 348-365
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  1. 14. Peoples, Regions, and Electoral Politics: The State Dumas andthe Constitution of New National Elites
  2. pp. 366-397
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  1. 15. The Provisional Government and Finland: Russian Democracyand Finnish Nationalism in Search of Peaceful Coexistence
  2. pp. 398-422
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  1. part four: designs
  2. p. 423
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  1. 16. Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Imperial Geographyof Power
  2. pp. 425-454
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  1. 17. Imperial Political Culture and Modernization in the Second Halfof the Nineteenth Century
  2. pp. 455-493
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  1. 18. Federalisms and Pan-movements: Re-imagining Empire
  2. pp. 494-510
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  1. List of Contributors
  2. pp. 510-514
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 515-538
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