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Robert Geraci - Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia - 9780801476037 - V9780801476037
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Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia

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Description for Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 24. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; JPA; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 600.
Robert Geraci presents an exceptionally original account of both the politics and the lived experience of diversity in a society whose ethnic complexity has long been downplayed. For centuries, Russians have defined their country as both a multinational empire and a homogeneous nation-state in the making, and have alternately embraced and repudiated the East or Asia as fundamental to Russia's identity. The author argues that the city of Kazan, in the middle Volga region, was the chief nineteenth-century site for mediating this troubled and paradoxical relationship with the East, much as St. Petersburg had served as Russia's window on Europe ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
599g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801476037
SKU
V9780801476037
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99-1

About Robert Geraci
Robert P. Geraci is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is coeditor, with Michael Khodarkovsky, of the book Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia, also from Cornell.

Reviews for Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia
What does it mean to be Russian?... How do these identities arise and develop, how do they affect the identities of neighboring national groups' These are the central question considered by Robert Geraci's brilliant study of the Tatar-Russian city of Kazan in the nineteenth century.... A short review cannot do justice to the richness and breadth of this book.... More ... Read more

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