Alexey Miller
Imperial Order: Social
and Ethnic Dimensions. Russian/Soviet Case.
The course examines the evolution of Russian
imperial order up to the consolidation of the new Soviet system as the
heir of the Russian Empire. It aims to analyze the patterns of growth,
the principles of organization of the Russian Empire and their evolution
in comparative context with primary attention to the European part of the
State.
The specific features of the Russian autocracy
and of the social structure of the Russian core and of the borderland societies
as a vehicle for territorial expansion. Social, ethnic and national identities
and hierarchies. Assimilation - success and failures. Russification in
comparative perspective. Nationalism and the Empire. Aborted modernization
attempts and nation-building process. These questions are topical for the
course.
Lectures 1-2. Russia as an Empire
and a European Power. Patterns of Russia's Imperial Growth.
Required: *Mark Raeff. Patterns of Russian
Imperial Policy Toward the Nationalities. In: Edward Alwarth (ed.) Soviet
Nationality Problems. N.Y., L., 1971. pp. 23-42.
Mark Raeff. Understanding Imperial Russia.
N.Y., 1984. pp.173-226.
*S.F.Starr. Tsarist Government: the Imperial
Dimension. In: Jeremy R.Azrael. (ed.) Soviet Nationality Policies and Practices.
pp.3-37.
Geoffrey Hosking. Russia, People and Empire,
1552-1917. pp.3-41.
*John LeDonne. Core area and frontier.
John LeDonne. The Russian Empire and the
World. N.Y., Oxford. 1997. pp.9-20, 347-362.
Isabelle de Madariaga. Russia in the Age...
pp.61-78, 215-238, 308-326, 427-454.
Suggested: **Alexander J. Motyl. Thinking
About Empire. In: Karen Barkey and Mark von Hagen (eds.) After Empire.
Multiethnic societies and Nation-Building. The Soviet Union and the Russian,
Ottoman and Habsburg Empires. Boulder, 1997, p.19-29.
Bruce Parrott. Analysing the Transformation
of the Soviet Union in Comparative Perspective. In. Karen Davisha and Bruce
Parrott (eds.) The End of Empire? The Transformation of the USSR in Comparative
Perspective. Armonk, N.Y., L. 1997, pp.5-12.
Edward Thaden. Russia's Western Borderlands,
1710-1870. Princeton, N.J., 1984, pp.32-60.
Zenon Kohut. Russian Centralism and Ukrainian
Autonomy. Imperial absorbtion of the Hetmanate. 1760-1830's. Cambridge,
Mass. 1988. p. 9-23, 191-209, 299-305.
Lectures 3-4. The Social Composition
of the Empire. Serfdom order. Institutions: Army, Church.
Required: Jerome Blum. Lord and Peasant
in Russia. Princeton, 1961. pp.367-442, pp.575-621.
Raeff M. Russian Nobility in the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Centuries: Trends and Comparisons. In: Banac I., Bushkovich
P. Nobility in Russia and Eastern Europe. New Haven, 1983, pp.99-122.
Steven L. Hoch. Serfdom and Social Control
in Russia. Petrovskoje, a Village in Tambov. Chicago and London. 1986,
pp.65-191.
Teodor Shanin. Russia as a " Developing
Society". Vol.1, London, 1985, pp.66-103, 150-174.
Alexander Gerschenkron. Europe in the Russian
Mirror. Cambridge, 1970, pp. 62-129.
Suggested: Isabelle de Madariaga. Russia
in the Age of Catherine the Great. London, 1981. pp.277-307, 521-548.
John Le Donne. The Formation of the Russian
Political Order. N.Y., 1991.
Jones R.E. The Emancipation of Russian
Nobility. Princeton, 1973.
Lecture 5. Ethnic and social hierarchies
in the Empire.
Required: Andreas Kappeler. Masepintsy,
malorossy, khohly... in: Miller A. (ed.) Russian-Ukrainian Encounter. M.,
1997. (in Russian)
John W. Slocum. Who and When, Were the
Inorodtsy? The Evolution of the Category of "Aliens" in Imperial
Russia. // The Russian Review, April 1998, p.173-190
Suggested: Edward C. Thaden. Interpreting
History: Collective Essays on Russian Relations with Europe. Boulder, 1990,
pp.211-230.
Mark Raeff. Understanding Imperial Russia.
pp.173-225.
Lecture 6. Russia and the West in
Russian political thought.
Required: Andrzej Walicki. The Slavophile
Controversy: History of a Conservative Utopia in Nineteenth-Century Russia.
Oxford, 1975. pp.394-457.
Nicholas Riasanovski. The Parting of Ways.
Oxford, 1976. pp.248-297.
Liah Greenfeld. Nationalism. Five Roads
to Modernity. (Part on Russia)
Lectures 7-8. The emerging Russian
nationalism and the Empire. Imagining the national core. Challenges of
peripheral nationalisms.
Required: Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities...
p. 67-111.
Eugen Weber. Peasants into Frenchmen. Stanford,
1976. pp.IX-XII, 303-338, 485-496.
Theodore R. Weeks. Nation and State in
Late Imperial Russia. Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier,
1863-1914. DeKalb, 1996, p.110-130, 193-199.
Alexei Miller. Russian-Ukrainian Encounter.
In: CEU History Yearbook. 1999.
*Paul Bushkovitch. What is Russia. (conference
paper)
Basil Dmytryshyn. Imperial Russia...
pp. 196-201, 312-321.
Suggested: David Saunders. "Russia's
Ukrainian policy (1847-1905): A Demographic Approach // European History
Quaterly, Vol.25, 1995, N.2, pp.181-200.
*David Sauders. Mikhail Katkov and Mikola
Kostomarov: A note on Petr A. Valuev Anti-Ukrainian Edict of 1863. Harvard
Ukrainian Studies. XVII, N.3-4, 1996. pp.365-383.
*David Saundes. Russia and Ukraine under
Alexander II: The Valuev Edict of 1863. // The International History Review,
XVII, February 1995, p.23-50.
Lecture 9. The origins of political
radicalism in Russia.
Required: Teodor von Laue. Why Lenin? Why
Stalin? Why Gorbachev? N.Y., 1993. pp.4-52.
Daniel R. Brower. Training the Nihilists.
Education and Radicalism in Tsarist Russia. London, 1982. pp. 146-229.
Suggested: Pipes R. (ed.) The Russian Intelligetsia.
N.Y., 1961.
Lectures 10-11 . The economic and
social change in Russia from 1880's up to 1914. Dilemmas of modernization.
Revolution of 1905.
Required: Stone N. Europe Transformed.
1878-1919. L., 1983. pp. 197-254.
Leopold Haimson. The Problem of Social
Identities in Early Twenteeth Century Russia. // Slavic Review, Vol.47,
N.1, Spring1988. pp.1-20.
Rieber A.J. Merchants and Enterpreners
in Imperial Russia. Chapel Hill, 1982. pp.415-427.
*Mark von Hagen. Russian-Ukrainian Encounter...
Suggested: Weeks T.R. Nation and State
in Late Imperial Russia. Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier,
1863-1914. DeKalb, 1996. pp. 70-92.
Geyer D. Russian Imperialism. Leamington
Spa. 1987. pp.125-150, 169-186.
Abracham Ascher. The Revolution of 1905.
Vol. 1, pp.152-167.
Lecture 12. WW I and the Empire.
Revolution, Civil War and National Movements. Class and Nation.
*Mark von Hagen. Russian-Ukrainian Encounter...
Roman Szporluk. The Russian Question and
the Imperial Overextension. In Karen Davisha and Bruce Parrot (eds.) The
End of the Empire?... pp.78-87.
Ronald Grigor Suny. The Revenge of the
Past. Nationalism, Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Stanford,
California, 1993. pp. 20-83.
Steven L. Guthier. The Popular Base
of Ukrainian Nationalism in 1917. Slavic Review, 1979, Vol.38, N.1.
pp30-47.
Lecture 13. The formation of the
USSR. Imperial heritage and novelty. Soviet society in construction. Politics
of korenizatsia.
Required:Richard Pipes.(ed) The Formation
of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism. 1917-1923. N.Y., 1968.
Or: Richard Pipes. Russia under the Bolshevik Regime. N.Y. 1993. Chapter
"The Red Empire".
Juri Slezkine. The USSR as a Communal Appartment,
or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism. // Slavic Review,
53, 2 (Summer 1994) pp.414-452.
*V.Svoboda. Was the Soviet Union Really
Necessary...
Kaiser R.J. The Georgraphy of Nationalism
in Russia and the USSR. Princeton, N.J. 1994. pp.94-151.
Lecture 14. Big Leap and the "stabilization"
of 1934-1936. Great Purge. New society. Reemergence of the Nationalist
Discourse.
Required: Nikolas Timasheff . The Great
Retreat. N.Y., 1946.
Sheila Fitzpatrick. Stalin and the Making
of the New Elite. 1928-1939. Slavic Review, vol.38, Nr.3, 1979. (The same
text in Sheila Fitzpatrick. The Cultural Front. Power and Culture in Revolutionary
Russia. Ithaca and London. 1992. pp.149-182.)
Kaiser R.J. The Georgraphy of Nationalism
in Russia and the USSR. Princeton, N.J. 1994. pp.135 -151.
Suggested: J.Arch Getty & Roberta T.Manning
(eds) Stalinist Terror. New Perspectives. Cambridge, 1993.
Lecture 15. Instead of Conclusion.
WWII and the Nationality Problems. The post-Stalinist transformation
of the society. The emancipation of Nomenclatura. The dissolution of the
USSR.
