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Russia on the Baltic
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The Tsar, The Empire, and The Nation
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 p...
Intimate Empire
After a humiliating defeat in the Crimean War, the Russian Empire struggled to reassert its position as a global power. A small noble family returned from the siege of Sevastopol and joined the rulers' efforts to advance Russian standing in the decades until 1917. Intimate Empire tells the story of the Mansurovs, who were known to nineteenth-century observers as resourceful imperial agents and staunch supporters of Orthodoxy. In close interplay with scholarship and the media, they built churches and pilgrim hostels to increase Russian dominance within its borders and in the Ottoman Empire. Some of the family's achievements stand to this day: the Russian complex in Jerusalem and an impressive...
Euphoria and Exhaustion
Die Perfektionierung des menschlichen Körpers und seiner Leistungsfähigkeit im Sport war in der Sowjetunion Programm. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie der Sport inszeniert, medial aufbereitet und popularisiert wurde. Deutlich wird die Ambivalenz des Sowjetsports zwischen Disziplinierung und Emanzipation, Kontrolle und Abweichung sowie staatstragender Instrumentalisierung und subkultureller Aneignung.
Identity and Foreign Policy
Baltic-Russian relations have been complicated and tense since the collapse of the USSR and the restoration of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian independence. Although Baltic accession to the European Union (EU) has created a new international context for interstate relations in the region, enlargement did not bring about the much hoped for improvement in Baltic-Russian relations. This case-study-rich volume examines links between identity, memory politics and foreign policy. It analyzes and explains developments in Baltic-Russian relations after both NATO and EU enlargement, focusing on the incompatibility of Baltic and Russian post-Soviet national identity constructions and the manifestatio...
Die baltischen Länder und Europa in der Frühen Neuzeit
Die historischen Untersuchungen des Bandes betreffen das Gebiet der heutigen Staaten Estland und Lettland. In der Frühen Neuzeit bestand dieses aus den Provinzen Estland und Livland, die nacheinander zu Polen-Litauen, Schweden und Russland gehörten, sowie aus dem Herzogtum Kurland. Namhafte Autorinnen und Autoren aus fünf Ländern präsentieren hier neue Forschungsergebnisse zu den politischen, wirtschaftlichen, kirchlichen und kulturellen Beziehungen dieses Gebiets zu seinen ost- und nordeuropäischen Nachbarländern sowie zu Deutschland und Westeuropa. Unser Bild vom Baltikum als Übergangsregion zwischen Ost und West wird damit bedeutend vertieft.
The Baltic States Under Stalinist Rule
Proceedings from a workshop held at the Univeristy of Tartu, Estonia, in 2008.
