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

Yer Numarası
A.IX/7271
ISBN
9781501736131 (cloth)
9781501736155 (epub/mobi)
9781501736148 (pdf)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2019.
Fiziksel Niteleme
ix, 266 sayfa : resim, harita, grafik, tıpkıbasım ; 24 cm
Genel Not
İndeks s. 263-266.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Bibliyografik notlar s. 207-260.
İçindekiler Notu
Preface -- List of illustrations -- Introduction : belonging in the Eurasian borderlands : interrogating nation and empire / Krista A. Goff, Lewis H. -- Making minorities in the Eurasian borderlands : A comparative perspective from the Russian and Ottoman Empires / Janet Klein -- PART I. NEGATIONS OF BELONGING. Bloody belonging : writing transcaspia into the Russian Empire / Ian W. Campbell -- The Armenian genocide of 1915 : lineaments of a comparative history / Norman M. Naimark -- “Do You want me to exterminate all of them or just the ones who oppose us?”: The 1916 Revolt in Semirech’e / Matthew J. Payne -- “What are they doing? After all, we’re not Germans” : expulsion, belonging, and postwar experience in the Caucasus / Claire P. Kaiser -- PART II. BELONGING VIA STANDARDIZATION. Developing a Soviet Armenian nation : refugees and resettlement in the Early Soviet South Caucasus / Jo Laycock -- Reforming the language of our nation : dictionaries, identity, and the Tatar Lexical Revolution, 1900-1970 / Daniel E. Schafer -- Speaking Soviet with an Armenian accent : literacy, language ideology, and belonging in Early Soviet Armenia / Jeremy Johnson -- PART III. BELONGING AND MYTHMAKING. Making a home for the Soviet people : World War II and the origins of the Sovetskii Narod / Anna Whittington -- Dismantling “Georgia’s Spiritual Mission” : Sacral ethnocentrism, cosmopolitan nationalism, and primordial awakenings at the Soviet collapse / Stephen H. Rapp Jr. -- New borders, new belongings in Central Asia : competing visions and the decoupling of the Soviet Union / Jeremy Smith -- Conclusion / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Özet, vb.
“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” -- Yayıncı.
Emeği Geçenler
Goff, Krista A., editör.
Siegelbaum, Lewis H., editör.