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The Russian Empire and Transcaucasia
2022The chapter begins by discussing the ways in which the Russian empire navigated two problems of imperial governance: attempts at administrative centralization and reform without broad-based political participation; and territorial expansion without institutional consolidation of administrative governance in the conquered territories.
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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2016
Make Rolf, Imperiale Herrschaft im Weichselland: Das Konigreich Polen im Russischen Imperium (1864-1915) (Imperial Rule in the Vistula Region: The Kingdom of Poland in the Russian Empire [1864-1917]). 532 pp. Oldenburg: De Gruyter, 2015. ISBN-13 978-3486781427. 54.95 [euro].
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Make Rolf, Imperiale Herrschaft im Weichselland: Das Konigreich Polen im Russischen Imperium (1864-1915) (Imperial Rule in the Vistula Region: The Kingdom of Poland in the Russian Empire [1864-1917]). 532 pp. Oldenburg: De Gruyter, 2015. ISBN-13 978-3486781427. 54.95 [euro].
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The Russian Empire (1453–1917)
2021Abstract The construction of a mighty empire and impressive high culture in a region uniquely far from the centers of global trade and culture was a great achievement. Elements of Eurasian empire and European military-fiscal state merged in the tsarist polity.
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The New Russian Intelligence Empire
Problems of Post-Communism, 1995More than fifteen Russian agencies are now involved in intelligence tasks. Do these post-Soviet KGBs signify a new totalitarian system in the making, or the emergence of a novel and malignant form of pluralism?
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Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography, 2010
AbstractLieven's book is the first scholarly work to provide thorough analysis of the European stage of Russia's campaign against Napoleon in 1813 – 1814. e review essay discusses how Lieven's book departs from conventional Russian historiography on the Napoleonic era by emphasizing the logistical and strategic contributions of Russian cavalry and by ...
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AbstractLieven's book is the first scholarly work to provide thorough analysis of the European stage of Russia's campaign against Napoleon in 1813 – 1814. e review essay discusses how Lieven's book departs from conventional Russian historiography on the Napoleonic era by emphasizing the logistical and strategic contributions of Russian cavalry and by ...
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History: Reviews of New Books, 2018
Professor Kollman's latest book, like her three earlier monographs, is a sure winner. Expertly conceived and written, this tripartite work virtually places the reader inside the classroom of a mast...
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Professor Kollman's latest book, like her three earlier monographs, is a sure winner. Expertly conceived and written, this tripartite work virtually places the reader inside the classroom of a mast...
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2006
Taking Islam and the Russian empire for natural antagonists, such a vision relied on the Orientalist approach representing Islam as a homogeneous and timeless entity opposing all non-Muslim cultures. Having recognised Islam at the end of the eighteenth century, the authorities constructed a complicated imperial network of Islamic institutions including
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Taking Islam and the Russian empire for natural antagonists, such a vision relied on the Orientalist approach representing Islam as a homogeneous and timeless entity opposing all non-Muslim cultures. Having recognised Islam at the end of the eighteenth century, the authorities constructed a complicated imperial network of Islamic institutions including
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