Research Catalog

Title

Empire and belonging in the Eurasian borderlands / edited by Krista A. Goff and Lewis H. Siegelbaum.

Publication

• Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goff, Krista A.
• Siegelbaum, Lewis H.

Description

ix, 266 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"The various chapters in this volurne address questions of belonging in multiethnic, bounded political spaces. They range across the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia, Kemalist Turkey, Imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union, from the mid-19th to the late 20th centuries. The first section focuses on eliminations: the taking of Geok-Tepe, stronghold of the Tekke Turkmen, in 1881 and the Russian empire's expansion into Central Asia; the 1916 revolt in Semirech'e (in modem-day Kazakhstan); the Armenian genocide viewed in comparative perspective; and expulsions in the postwar Caucasus. The second looks at imperial standardization: in Soviet Armenia, modernizing state officials accommodated Armenian linguistic and cultural particularities as local actors debated the terms of Sovietization; meanwhile, the Tatar lexical revolution was inspired by Soviet attempts to enlighten 'backward peoples.' The third part looks at connections between belonging and myth making: the origins of the notion of a "Sovetskii Narod" in the experience of the Great Patriotic War; Gamsakhurdia's assertion of Georgia's status as a quintessential and foundational European nation. The various contributions to the book illustrate both the mutability and the durability of imperial belonging in the Eurasian borderlands. Once considered part of the 'Eastern Question,' the minority peoples of the Russian/Soviet and Ottoman empires are shown to have had their own longings and identities; their capacity to push back against but also selectively absorb imperial initiatives makes them fascinating subjects of belonging"--

Subjects

• Turkey
• Soviet Union
• Minorities > Government policy > Soviet Union
• Minorities > Turkey > Goverment policy
• Minorities > Government policy > Russia
• History
• Ethnic relations
• Turkey > Ethnic relations > History
• Russia > Ethnic relations > History
• Russia (Federation)
• Soviet Union > Ethnic relations > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : belonging in the Eurasian borderlands : interrogating nation and empire / Krista A. Goff and Lewis H. Siegelbaum -- Negations of belonging -- Belonging via standardization -- Belonging and myth-making.

Call Number

JFE 19-7962

ISBN

• 9781501736131
• 1501736132

LCCN

2018043394

OCLC

1054268838

Title

Empire and belonging in the Eurasian borderlands / edited by Krista A. Goff and Lewis H. Siegelbaum.

Publisher

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Goff, Krista A., editor.

Siegelbaum, Lewis H., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Empire and belonging in the Eurasian borderlands Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501736148 (DLC) 2018045311

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7962