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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Russian Empire"”.
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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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The emergence of literary ethnography in the Russian Empire: from the far east to the pale of settlement, 1845-1917
… ethnography and literature in the works of two Russian and two Russian Jewish writers and ethnographers. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Korolenko, Vladimir Bogoraz, and Semyon An-sky wrote fiction in the genre of literary ethnography. This genre encompasses discursive practices and narrative …
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Bradford Mills at Marki, Warsaw: A Case Study of British Entrepreneurship in Russian Poland 1883 – 1914
… and workers’ community at Marki, near Warsaw, in Russian Poland. Protectionism and increasing foreign competition are discussed, among many complex economic pressures on British industry, as likely catalysts for this enterprise and the general historiography of the Polish lands is explored to …
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Sergei Kirov and the Struggle for Soviet Power in the Terek Region, 1917-1918
Western historiography of the Russian Revolution of 1917 contains few monographic studies of the outlying provinces of the Russian Empire. This dissertation examines revolutionary politics in the multi-national Terek Region, in the Northern Caucasus, from the February Revolution to the …
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A Legacy of Empire: Russian Imperialism and the Survival of the Ukrainian State
… conditions for the construction of both the Russian Empire and of the Soviet Union's empire. Though the Soviet Union has collapsed, all of Russia's history has not been rendered irrelevant and there are strong indications that Russia will not soon develop into a stable democracy that is not …
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Commercial Cultures: Modernity in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1880--1930
Modern retail stores in the late Russian Empire and Soviet 1920s served as symbols of modernization and as agents of political, social, and cultural transformation. Modern retailers operated within the larger context of the commercial sphere, which was characterized by experimentation and …
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Reconfiguring the Republic Dream: New Equitable Housing Types in Post-Socialist Tbilisi
… national identity during the last years of the Russian Empire and before the country’s short-lived independence (1918-1921). They, therefore, offer insights and models for an architectural identity in present-day independent Georgia. This thesis aims to demonstrate how a deep understanding of …
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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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Seeds of exchange: collecting for Russia's apothecary and botanical gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… the collection and cultivation of plants in the Russian Empire for medicinal and botanical purposes from the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the eighteenth centuries. It focuses on the itineraries of collection and the spaces of cultivation established by herbalists, doctors, and …
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Facade Democracy: Democratic Transition In Kazakhstan And Uzbekistan
… to the region's history as part of the Russian Empire and later, as part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Using frameworks drawn from Dahl's Polyarchy (1971) and Huntington's The Third Wave (1991), this thesis finds that not only are Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan straying …
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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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A Regional Framework for Historical Developments in the Caucasus, 1917-1921
… history of the Caucasus during the period of the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Based on journalistic materials, archival documents and contemporary publications in Russian, Georgian, French and English, this chronological study demonstrates that political, military and ideological leaders in …
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The Reaction of the the Russion Orthodox Church During the First Year of Communist Persecution
<p>On October 25, 1917, according to the Russian calendar, the Bolshevik Revolution, which ushered on to the world scene the dictatorship of Communism, began in Petrograd and spread rapidly to other Russian cities and towns and ultimately engulfed the whole country. Its effect upon all classes of …
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Building empire among the Buryats: conversion encounters in Russia's Baikal region, 1860s - 1917
This dissertation argues that encounters between Russian Orthodox missionaries and the Buryats with whom they worked in Russia’s Siberian Baikal region between the 1860s and 1917 epistemologically emplaced the Buryats within the empire and caused Orthodoxy to assume the role of bearer of imperial …
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The Russian judicial reform of 1864; its origins and development, 1825-1864
<p>The Russian Judicial Reform of 1864 has been hailed as one of Alexander II's “Great Reforms.” For it, along with the emancipation of the serfs, the creation of the zemstvos and, somewhat later, the military reforms, he inherited the appellation “Tsar-Liberator.” Most historians have regarded him …
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Decentering Russia: Art and Empire, 1900-1973
… education and display. Chapter One focuses on Russian artist Konstantin Korovin’s (1861-1939) depictions of the empire’s borderlands for international exhibitions, revealing how and why the cultural, political, and intellectual distinctions between “peripheries” and “centers” emerged in the …
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Pilietinio ir etninio nacionalizmo takoskyra Rusijoje. Kokia nacionalizmo kryptimi Rusijos prezidentai po Sovietų Sąjungos žlugimo formuoja Rusijos vidaus politiką? /
… the official breakdown of the Soviet Union, Russian political elite had to search for and form a new political direction for the nation-state and new “national idea” in Russia, which would be concentrated not only on the central Russia and the Russian ethnic group, but also on other …
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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 river Neva and the imperial façade: Culture and environment in nineteenth century St. Petersburg Russia
… connecting St. Petersburg to the rest of the Russian Empire and Europe to the west, affected the political and social life of the imperial capital at the beginning of the nineteenth century. I imagine the river Neva as the lifeblood of an imperial capital, a river city in which I will examine …
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