Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts

ISBN-13: 9781138789197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str.

Tomohiko Uyama

Opis

Although the Russian Empire has traditionally been viewed as a European borderland, most of its territory was actually situated in Asia. This book examines the history of the Asian parts of the Russian Empire, investigating the empire's policy toward various religious and ethnic groups.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Russia’s Eastern Expansion: Its "Mission" and the Tatars’ Intermediary Role  1. The Russian Empire’s Civilizing Mission in the Eighteenth Century in Comparative Perspective  2. Tatarskaia Kargala in Russia’s Eastern Policies  3. The Russian Empire and the Intermediary Role of Tatars in Kazakhstan: The Politics of Cooperation and Rejection  Part II: Taming Space and People: Institutions and Demography  4. Intra-Bureaucratic Debate on the Institution of Russian Governors-General in the Mid-Nineteenth Century  5. Asiatic Russia: Colonization and "Russification" in the Imperial Geography of the Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries  6. Empire and Demography in Turkestan: Numbers and the Politics of Counting  Part III: Russian Power Projected beyond its Borders  7. Russo-Chinese Trade through Central Asia: Regulations and Reality  8. Muslim Networks, Imperial Power, and the Local Politics of Qajar Iran  9. Sunni-Shi‘i Relations in the Russian Protectorate of Bukhara, as Perceived by the Local ‘Ulama  10. The Open and Secret Diplomacy of Tsarist and Soviet Russia in Tibet: The Role of Agvan Dorzhiev (1912–1925)  Part IV: Asiatic Russia as a Space for National Movements  11. Muslim Political Activity in Russian Turkestan, 1905–1916  12. On the Cultural Front Lines: Muslim Reformers and Communities in Late Imperial Russia  13. The Alash Orda’s Relations with Siberia, the Urals and Turkestan: The Kazakh National Movement and the Russian Imperial Legacy

O autorze

UYAMA Tomohiko is professor at the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University. He specializes in the history of the Russian Empire and contemporary politics in Central Asia, and is the editor of Empire, Islam, and Politics in Central Eurasia (2007) and co-editor of Japan’s Silk Road Diplomacy (2008).