Children of Rus Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation
InChildren of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River-which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine-was one of the Russian empire&...
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| Abstract | InChildren of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River-which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine-was one of the Russian empire's last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest's Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities.
Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire's most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest's culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire.
Exploring why and how the empire's southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state. |
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| AbstractList | InChildren of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River-which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine-was one of the Russian empire's last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest's Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities.
Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire's most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest's culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire.
Exploring why and how the empire's southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state. This book recovers an all-but-forgotten chapter in the history of the Tsarist Empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River - which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine - was one of the Russian Empire's last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the nineteenth century, this region generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. In Children of Rus’ , Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire’s last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest’s Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities. Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire’s most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest’s culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire. Exploring why and how the empire’s southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state. In Children of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire’s last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest’s Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities.Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire’s most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest’s culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire.Exploring why and how the empire’s southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state. |
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| Snippet | InChildren of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank,... In Children of Rus’ , Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank,... Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. In Children of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank,... This book recovers an all-but-forgotten chapter in the history of the Tsarist Empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the... |
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| Subtitle | Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation |
| TableOfContents | Front Matter
Table of Contents
LIST OF MAPS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE TO THE READER
ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction
1: The Little Russian Idea and the Invention of a Rus’ Nation
2: The Little Russian Idea in the 1860s
3: The Little Russian Idea and the Imagination of Russian and Ukrainian Nations
4: Nationalizing Urban Politics
5: Concepts of Liberation
6: Electoral Politics and Regional Governance
7: Nationalizing the Empire
8: The Limits of the Russian Nationalist Vision
Epilogue
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX Cover Title Page, Copyright, Dedication Contents List of Maps Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Abbreviations Introduction Part One | The Little Russian Idea and the Russian Empire 1. The Little Russian Idea and the Invention of a Rus′ Nation 2. The Little Russian Idea in the 1860s 3. The Little Russian Idea and the Imagination of Russian and Ukrainian Nations Part Two | The Urban Crucible 4. Nationalizing Urban Politics 5. Concepts of Liberation Part Three | Forging a Russian Nation 6. Electoral Politics and Regional Governance 7. Nationalizing the Empire 8. The Limits of the Russian Nationalist Vision Epilogue Selected Bibliography Index Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One | The Little Russian Idea and the Russian Empire -- 1. The Little Russian Idea and the Invention of a Rus' Nation -- 2. The Little Russian Idea in the 1860s -- 3. The Little Russian Idea and the Imagination of Russian and Ukrainian Nations -- Part Two | The Urban Crucible -- 4. Nationalizing Urban Politics -- 5. Concepts of Liberation -- Part Three | Forging a Russian Nation -- 6. Electoral Politics and Regional Governance -- 7. Nationalizing the Empire -- 8. The Limits of the Russian Nationalist Vision -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index Acknowledgments -- Part One: The Little Russian Idea and the Russian Empire -- Part Three: Forging a Russian Nation -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Note to the Reader -- Epilogue -- 2. The Little Russian Idea in the 1860s -- 4. Nationalizing Urban Politics -- Index 3. The Little Russian Idea and the Imagination of Russian and Ukrainian Nations -- 8. The Limits of the Russian Nationalist Vision -- 5 Concepts of Liberation -- 7. Nationalizing the Empire -- List of Maps -- Selected Bibliography -- Part Two: The Urban Crucible -- 1. The Little Russian Idea and the Invention of a Rus′ Nation -- Frontmatter -- Introduction -- 6. Electoral Politics and Regional Governance -- |
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