Russia in Asia: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realities

ISBN-13: 9780367519179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 256 str.

Opis

This edited volume presents new research on Russian-Asian connections by historians, art historians, literary scholars, and linguists. Its interdisciplinary approach to the topic challenges readers to synthesize multiple analytical lenses to better understand the multivalent connections binding Russia and Asia together.

Spis treści

Introduction: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realities;  Part I: Imaginations;  1. "These Great Plains of Russia Were Once the Bottom of the Sea": Peter Simon Pallas, Siberian Geohistory, and Empire;  2. The View of the Golden Mountains: The Altai and the Historical Resilience of Resource Imagination;  3. Imaginary Travel to Imaginary Constantinople: A Painted Panorama, Periodical Press, and the Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829);  4. Chinese Roads in the Russian Imagination and in Reality: The 1870s as a Decade of Discovery;  Part II: Interactions;  5. Captivity and Empire: Central Asia in Nineteenth-Century Russian Captivity Narratives;  6. Imperial Dreams and the Russo-Japanese War: The Diary of Field Chaplain Mitrofan Srebrianski;  7. Bad Medicine: Ritual, Sacrifice, and the Birth of Soviet Sakha Literature;  8. Heroism or Colonialism: China and the Soviet Imagination of Manchuria in Port Arthur;  Part III: Realities;  9. Welfare and Work: Reintegrating "Invalids" into Soviet Kyrgyzstan after the Great Patriotic War;  10. Urbanization, Language Vitality, and Well-Being in Russian Eurasia;  11. Evolving Language Contact and Multilingualism in Northeastern Russia;  Selected Bibliography;  Index