The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation

Darius Staliunas, Yoko Aoshima (eds)

Title: The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation
Subtitle: Dilemmas of Nationalization In Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1905–1915
Editors: Darius Staliunas; Yoko Aoshima
Price: € 159,00 excl. VAT
ISBN: 9789633863657
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 408
Language: English
Publication date: 31 - 05 - 2021
Dimensions: 15.9 x 23.4 cm
Series: CEU Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
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Discipline: Social and Political Sciences
Imprint: CEU Press
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Introduction

Transformations of Imperial Nationality Policy

Inconsistently Nationalizing State: The Romanov Empire and the Ukrainian National Movement
Anton Kotenko

Challenges to Imperial Authorities’ Nationality Policy in the Northwest Region, 1905–15
Darius Staliūnas

What Is the “Russian Cause” and Whom Does It Serve? Russian Nationalists and Imperial Bureaucracy in the Kingdom of Poland
Malte Rolf

Confessions in the Crossfire

Interconfessional Rivalry in Lithuania after the Decree on Toleration
Vilma Žaltauskaitė

The Struggle between Confessional and Nationalist Groups for the Chełm-Podlasian Region: the 1905 Decree on Tolerance and Former Uniates
Chiho Fukushima

Transformations in Education

Native Language Education in the Western Border Regions around 1905
Yoko Aoshima

Politics around Universal Education in Right-bank Ukraine in the Late Tsarist Period
Kimitaka Matsuzato

To Sense an Empire: Russian Education Policy and the Origins of Mass Tourism in the Northwest Region
Jolita Mulevičiūtė

The Formation of Imperial Loyalty in the Education System in the Northwest Region in 1905–1915
Olga Mastianica

The Problem of the Russian Right

Right-Wing Russian Organizations in the City of Vil’na and the Northwestern Provinces, 1905–1915
Vytautas Petronis

Defending the Empire in the Baltic Provinces: Russian Nationalist Visions in the Aftermath of the First Russian Revolution
Karsten Brüggemann

Russian Jews and the Russian Right: Why There Were no Jewish Right-Wing Politics in the Late Russian Empire?
Vladimir Levin

List of Contributors
Index

Darius Staliunas, Yoko Aoshima (eds)

The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation

Dilemmas of Nationalization In Russia’s Western Borderlands, 1905–1915

This collection of essays addresses the challenge of modern nationalism to the tsarist Russian Empire. First appearing on the empire’s western periphery this challenge, was most prevalent in twelve provinces extending from Ukrainian lands in the south to the Baltic provinces in the north, as well as to the Kingdom of Poland.
At issue is whether the late Russian Empire entered World War I as a multiethnic state with many of its age-old mechanisms run by a multiethnic elite, or as a Russian state predominantly managed by ethnic Russians. The tsarist vision of prioritizing loyalty among all subjects over privileging ethnic Russians and discriminating against non-Russians faced a fundamental problem: as soon as the opportunity presented itself, non-Russians would increase their demands and become increasingly separatist.
The authors found that although the imperial government did not really identify with popular Russian nationalism, it sometimes ended up implementing policies promoted by Russian nationalist proponents. Matters addressed include native language education, interconfessional rivalry, the “Jewish question,” the origins of mass tourism in the western provinces, as well as the emergence of Russian nationalist attitudes in the aftermath of the first Russian revolution.

Editors

Darius Staliunas

Darius Stali.nas is Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History. He is the author of Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007), Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars (Budapest: CEU Press, 2015), and, with Dangiras Ma.iulis, Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883–1940 (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2015).