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Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2010
The study of tsarist Russia’s nationalities and its peripheries has grown con‐ siderably in recen... more The study of tsarist Russia’s nationalities and its peripheries has grown con‐ siderably in recent years. This interest has certainly been aided by the collapse of the Soviet empire, which gave new opportunities for scholars of the former East Bloc states and Soviet Socialist Republics to examine Russian imperial‐ ism with greater depth. Not surprisingly, our understanding of imperial (and Soviet) “nationalities policies” and the construction of national identities in this part of the world has gained more nuance. The old paradigm of a central‐ ized Russificatory regime has become problematic, and the manner in which the subject peoples of the empire responded has also proven to be far more varied than previously supposed. Scholars of Russian imperialism and nation‐ alism have had to grapple with the problems of defining Russification (even Russianness itself ), bureaucratic infighting, and the multitude of policies that have been shoehorned under the rubric of “nationalities policies.”
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2010
The study of tsarist Russia’s nationalities and its peripheries has grown con‐ siderably in recen... more The study of tsarist Russia’s nationalities and its peripheries has grown con‐ siderably in recent years. This interest has certainly been aided by the collapse of the Soviet empire, which gave new opportunities for scholars of the former East Bloc states and Soviet Socialist Republics to examine Russian imperial‐ ism with greater depth. Not surprisingly, our understanding of imperial (and Soviet) “nationalities policies” and the construction of national identities in this part of the world has gained more nuance. The old paradigm of a central‐ ized Russificatory regime has become problematic, and the manner in which the subject peoples of the empire responded has also proven to be far more varied than previously supposed. Scholars of Russian imperialism and nation‐ alism have had to grapple with the problems of defining Russification (even Russianness itself ), bureaucratic infighting, and the multitude of policies that have been shoehorned under the rubric of “nationalities policies.”