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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Imperial Russia"”.
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Industrialisation, Politics, and Banking Instability in Late Imperial Russia
… politics, banking and social instability in late Imperial Russia. The early-to-mid-1890s were characterised by rapid industrial growth, which was driven by protectionist policies and the state procurement of industrial products. The period 1899-1902 saw a severe financial and industrial crisis. …
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Constructing consumer culture: Advertising in imperial Russia to 1914
… commercial advertising in prerevolutionary urban Russia, with chronological emphasis on the early twentieth century. It examines advertising's role in fostering a Russian consumer culture and expanding the public arena.
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Performing the national past: history on stage in imperial Russia
… closely examines 18th- and 19th-century Russian historical dramas set in the Time of Troubles, which was the era of dynastic crisis and the first civil war in Russian history during 1598-1613. The project demonstrates that this subgenre was essential for the development of modern theatre …
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Performing death: Celebrity women’s funerals and the emotional public sphere in late imperial Russia
Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Crisis and decline: The radical right movement in the Russian Empire, 1900-1914
… examines the radical right movement in the Russian Empire between 1900 and 1914. Eschewing an exclusively ‘high political’ focus, it considers the right-wing interaction with Russian society in what rightist activists widely considered to be an era of crisis. It examines the construction of …
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Nietzsche's orphans: music and the search for unity in revolutionary Russia, 1905-1921
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was in the throes of immense social, political and cultural upheaval. The effects of rapid industrialization, rising capitalism and urbanization, as well as the trauma wrought by revolution and war, reverberated through all levels of society and …
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Modernizing Russia in the Aeronautical Age: Technology, Legitimacy, and the Structures of Air-Mindedness, 1909-1939
… to identifying the essential characteristics of Imperial and Soviet aeronautical culture, the dissertation offers new insight into the nature and direction of Russian society, culture, and politics in the years surrounding 1917. Through documentation of the interactive efforts of Imperial state …
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On the Land, Territory, and Crisis Triad: Enclosure and Capitalist Appropriation of the Russian Land Commune
… context of economic and agrarian crises in late imperial Russia. Using original records of Russian land deals that I obtained in the federal and provincial archives, I explore how the coalitions of landed nobility, land surveyors, landless serfs, and peasant proprietors used land enclosure as a …
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Russia in the Holy Land: Acting upon Imperial Russia's Soft Power in the Schools of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (1882-1914)
… of Christian minorities under Muslim rule. Imperial Russia, as part of its self-understanding as the traditional benefactor of Orthodoxy in the Arab provinces and the heir of the demised Byzantine Empire, became engaged, through several institutions and with varied degrees of success, in the …
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What is Christian Anarchist Art? Leo Tolstoy and the Literature of The Intermediary, 1885-1890
… and the socioeconomic constraints of late Imperial Russia.
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The Russian-Soviet Resettlement Policies and Their Implications for Ethno-Territorial Conflicts in the South Caucasus
This dissertation investigates the Imperial Russian and Soviet resettlement policies in the South Caucasus with a focus on Azerbaijan, and their implications for the ethno-territorial conflicts in the region. The periods of 1817-1840 as well as from 1878- 1914 during Russian Imperial rule are …
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Decentering Russia: Art and Empire, 1900-1973
… historical and geographical peripheries in late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, from the last decades of tsarist rule through the Soviet Union’s ascent as a leader of global decolonializing movements (1900-1973). Previous scholarship on cultural practices in the Soviet Union’s northern, …
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Law and the Culture of Debt in Moscow on the Eve of the Great Reforms, 1850-1870
… diversity of legal phenomena. I therefore study imperial Russian law in transition from the perspective of individuals who used the courts and formed their legal strategies and attitudes about law long before the reform. I do so through close readings of previously unexamined materials from two …
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On the path of truth and progress: the imperial Russian penny press, 1908-1918
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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"The ""end of the earth"": Sakhalin Island in the Russian imperial imagination, 1849-1906"
This dissertation examines Russian discourses concerning colonization of Sakhalin Island from the 1850s, when explorers claimed the island as innately Russian land, to 1906, when Russia withdrew colonists after surrendering southern Sakhalin to Japan. By examining not only the ever-changing state …
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A slap in the face of public taste: the Russian Futurists' aesthetics of revolution
… thesis examines the historical context in which Russian Futurism formed in 1910 in order to comprehend better this significant movement’s motivations, ideologies, aesthetics, and effects on subsequent literature, art, and politics, particularly those of Russia. It identifies the primary problems …
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My Cherished Enemy: The Construction of Identity and Otherness in Russia
As of 2018 the Russian Federation is home to 185 registered ethnic groups, ranging in size from 5.3 million of the Volga Tatars to the merely 64 people of the Votes. Many of them are adherents to religions other than Orthodoxy with Muslims, Jews and Catholics being the most numerous – Muslims alone …