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Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917

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Defining the Others, “them”, in relation to one’s own reference group, “us”, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities. This volume examines the development and contexts...
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Defining the Others, “them”, in relation to one’s own reference group, “us”, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities in any given country or region. In the case of Russia, the formulation of these binary definitions – sometimes taking a form of enemy images – can be traced all the way to medieval texts, in which religion represented the dividing line. Further, the ongoing expansion of the empire transferred numerous “external others” into internal minorities. The chapters of this edited volume examine the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the Others in Russia from the 16th century Muscovy to the collapse of the Russian empire.
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Price: $174.95
Pages: 498
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Series: Imperial Encounters in Russian History
Publication Date: 25 April 2023
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9798887191461
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: Sociology & anthropology, European history, Social & cultural history, Religion & politics
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“...[A] collection that richly expands knowledge of the ways Russians processed religious, ethnic, socioeconomic, cultural, and political difference within their homeland and in the world beyond, in a variety of contexts over a long time span. The book envisions an audience of specialists as well as advanced students, who will find here not only a trove of fresh material but also effective demonstrations of how to use primary sources.”

—Susan Layton, Slavic Review



“Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547–1917 offers important perspectives that inform and enrich our understanding of contemporary issues of identity and intercultural relations.”

— Aleksandr Korobeinikov, Slavonic and East European Review


"...[T]he tapestry like character of the edited volume and its sustained research focus make the book a rich and multifaceted study on producing images of the other in Russian history."

— Diego Repenning, Ab Imperio


“This timely volume brings together exciting new research on the perception of ‘others’ during four centuries of Russia’s imperial history. While older research often highlighted adherence to Orthodoxy as the main marker of Russianness, this volume’s case studies provide a far more nuanced picture. They demonstrate that different—and often contradicting—markers of identity existed side by side and that perceptions of internal and external ‘others’ were inextricably interwoven. Processes of incorporation and differentiation took place simultaneously and led to a constant shifting of borders between those perceived as ‘Russians’ and the ‘others.’ Ultimately, this book indicates that these contradictions resulted from the ambiguities of Russia’s own identity as a multiethnic state oscillating between empire and nation, with consequences to the Soviet era and beyond.”

— Ulrich Hofmeister, University of Munich

Kati Parppei is a university lecturer (title of docent) in the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. Her interests include the history of mentalities and ideas, image studies, Russian history, and borderland issues.


Bulat Rakhimzianov is currently a PhD student at University College Dublin. His research interests include the relations between the Tatar khanates and Moscow in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the uses of Tatar medieval history in contemporary historical writings and politics.

Preface

Kati Parppei and Bulat Rakhimzianov


Introduction: Images, Otherness, and Images of the Others

Kati Parppei and Bulat Rakhimzianov


Part One: Creating Prototypes

Section Summary

David M. Goldfrank


  1. Varieties of Otherness in Ivan IV’s Muscovy: Relativity, Multiplicity, and Ambiguity
    Charles J. Halperin

  1. The Depiction of “Us” and “Them” in the Illuminated Codex of the 1560s–1570s 
    Jaakko Lehtovirta

  1. The Image of the Other: The Perception of Tatars by Russian Intellectuals and Officials in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (Chroniclers, Diplomats, Voivodes, and Writers)
    Maksim Moiseev

  1. From Inozemtsy to Inovertsy and Novokreshchenye: Images of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Russia 
    Ricarda Vulpius


Part Two: Categorizing the “Internal Others”

Section Summary

Michael Khodarkovsky


  1. From “Sovereign’s Strangers” to “Our Savages”: Otherness of Siberian Indigenous Peoples in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia 
    Yuri Akimov 

  1. The Russians and the Oirats (Dzungars) in Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Contacts and Images of the “Other” in the Era of Empire Building
    Vladimir Puzanov 

  1. “In a Menagerie of Nations”: Crimean Others in Travelogues, c. 1800
    Nikita Khrapunov

  1. Visually Integrating the Other Within: Imperial Photography and the Image of the Caucasus (1864–1915)
    Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur

  1. Perception of Others within One Ethnic Minority: Jewish Ethnographic Studies in the Late Russian Empire
    Marina Shcherbakova


Part Three: The Other in Times of Conflict and Crisis

Section Summary

Stephen M. Norris 


  1.  The Russian Imagological Bestiary: The Zoomorphic Image of the Enemy (“Other”) at the Turn of the Century, 1890–1905
    Anna Rezvukhina, Alena Rezvukhina, and Sergey Troitskiy 

  1.  Hungry and Different—“Otherness” in Imperial Famine Relief: 1891–1892
    Immo Rebitschek

  1.  “Agitators and Spies”: The Enemy Image of Itinerant Russians in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1899–1900 
    Johanna Wassholm

  1.  The Self and the Other: Representations of the Monarchist Foe and Ally in the Satirical Press of the Russian Right (1906–1908) 
    Oleg Minin 

  1.  The Construction of the Image of the “Other” in the Discussion of the “Yellow Peril”: Chinese People in Late Imperial Russia
    Andrey Avdashkin

  1.  “Own” and “Other”: Soldiers, Officers, and the Fatal Zigzags of the Russian Revolution in the Last Year of the Life of General L. G. Kornilov (1870–1918)
    Il'ia Rat'kovskii


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