In this Book
- Russia in the German Global Imaginary: Imperial Visions and Utopian Desires, 1905-1941
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies, Kritika Historical Studies
summary
This book traces transformations in German views of Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, leading up to the disastrous German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Casteel shows how Russia figured in the imperial visions and utopian desires of a variety of Germans, including scholars, journalists, travel writers, government and military officials, as well as nationalist activists. He illuminates the ambiguous position that Russia occupied in Germans' global imaginary as both an imperial rival and an object of German power. During the interwar years in particular, Russia, now under Soviet rule, became a site onto which Germans projected their imperial ambitions and expectations for the future, as well as their worst anxieties about modernity. Casteel shows how the Nazis drew on this cultural repertoire to construct their own devastating vision of racial imperialism.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 3-16
- Part I. Nationhood and Imperial Rivalry through World War I
- Part II. Re-mapping “the East” between the Wars
- 5. Siberia and Visions of Continental Empire
- pp. 113-142
- Conclusion
- pp. 171-174
- Bibliography
- pp. 205-238
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822981350
MARC Record
OCLC
962065602
Pages
263
Launched on MUSE
2016-11-06
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016