New Histories of Northern Eurasia, 700–1917
A Primary Source Reader
- Textbook
New Histories of Northern Eurasia, 700–1917
A Primary Source Reader
- Textbook
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Description
This book provides a contextualised collection of 150 newly translated primary sources on the history of Northern Eurasia that spans the period from 700-1917. The selected documents decenter the traditional fixation on the primary Russian-language sources produced in the centers of power by government officials. At the same time, New Histories of Northern Eurasia, 700- 1917 preserves the panoramic perspective on the entangled historical processes and multiplicity of historical actors. Not bound by the constraints of the traditional scheme of Russian history or any other national bias, this sourcebook helps to diversify surveys of Russian and other national histories in the region.
Supported by an online Instructor's Guide, this book reimagines the history of the Eurasian region over fifteen centuries for a new generation of students and scholars, crucially avoiding the usual traps of inadvertent 'Russification' and anachronistic modernization that have so often hampered our understanding until now.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Keeping the Focus, Decentering the Sources
Chapter 1: Political Ecology: The Formation of the Northern Eurasia Region
Chapter 2: Mechanisms of Political and Cultural Self-Organization of Northern Eurasia's First Polities: The Formation of the Rous' Lands
Chapter 3. Consolidation of New Political Systems: State-Building in Northern Eurasia (Eleventh–Thirteenth Centuries)
Chapter 4. From Local Polities to Hierarchical Statehood: Interaction and Entanglement of Competing Scenarios of Power (Thirteenth–Fourteenth Centuries)
Chapter 5. New Times: The Problem of Substantiating Sovereignty and Its Boundaries in the Grand Principality of Moscow (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
Chapter 6. The Transformation of Social Imagination: The Seventeenth Century
Chapter 7. The Tsardom of Muscovy in Search of an “Assembly Point”
Chapter 8. From the “Gunpowder Empire” to the “Modern State”
Chapter 9. From the “Modern State” to the “Modern Empire”
Chapter 10. The Modern Empire in Search of a Nation
Chapter 11. Designing a National Empire
Chapter 12. Empire and Revolution
Chapter 13. The Collapse of the Rusian National Empire Regime
Chapter 14. Self-Organization of the “Progressive Empire”
Chapter 15. The War of Globalization and the Imperial Revolution
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 23 Jul 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 9781350589285 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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