Russia S Orient

Author : Daniel R. Brower,Edward J. Lazzerini
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211131

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Russia's Orient by Daniel R. Brower,Edward J. Lazzerini Pdf

From a 1994 conference (U. of California, Berkeley), Borderlands Research Group participants present their findings based on unprecedented access to the hinterlands of what is the now the CIS. Fourteen contributors provide context for the current self- deterministic ethnic turmoil in Chechyna and elsewhere far from the Kremlin, via discussions of tsarist colonial policies and historical, heartland majority attitudes toward the "ignoble savages and unfaithful subjects" (read Muslim) of Russia's diverse Orient. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Vera Tolz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191616440

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Russia's Own Orient by Vera Tolz Pdf

Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St. Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge, and about Europe and Asia as mere political and cultural constructs. Their ideas anticipated the work of Edward Said and post-colonial scholarship by half a century. The similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical. Said was indebted, via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied in the Soviet Union, to the revisionist ideas of Russian Orientologists of the fin de siècle. But why did this body of Russian scholarship of the early twentieth century turn out to be so innovative? Should we agree with a popular claim of the Russian elites about their country's particular affinity with the 'Orient'? There is no single answer to this question. The early twentieth century was a period when all over Europe a fascination with things 'Oriental' engendered the questioning of many nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices. In that sense, the revisionism of Russian Orientologists was part of a pan-European trend. And yet, Tolz also argues that a set of political, social, and cultural factors, which were specific to Russia, allowed its imperial scholars to engage in an unusual dialogue with representatives of the empire's non-European minorities. It is together that they were able to articulate a powerful long-lasting critique of modern imperialism and colonialism, and to shape ethnic politics in Russia across the divide of the 1917 revolutions.

Author : Vera Tolz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199594443

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Russia's Own Orient by Vera Tolz Pdf

Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St. Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge, and about Europe and Asia as mere political and cultural constructs. Their ideas anticipated the work of Edward Said and post-colonial scholarship by half a century. The similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical. Said was indebted, via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied in the Soviet Union, to the revisionist ideas of Russian Orientologists of the fin de siècle. But why did this body of Russian scholarship of the early twentieth century turn out to be so innovative? Should we agree with a popular claim of the Russian elites about their country's particular affinity with the 'Orient'? There is no single answer to this question. The early twentieth century was a period when all over Europe a fascination with things 'Oriental' engendered the questioning of many nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices. In that sense, the revisionism of Russian Orientologists was part of a pan-European trend. And yet, Tolz also argues that a set of political, social, and cultural factors, which were specific to Russia, allowed its imperial scholars to engage in an unusual dialogue with representatives of the empire's non-European minorities. It is together that they were able to articulate a powerful long-lasting critique of modern imperialism and colonialism, and to shape ethnic politics in Russia across the divide of the 1917 revolutions.

Author : Adalyat Issiyeva
Publisher : AMS Studies in Music
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190051365

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Representing Russia's Orient by Adalyat Issiyeva Pdf

Building on long-forgotten archives and detailed case studies, Representing Russia's Orient reveals how complex representations of oriental subjects in nineteenth-century Russian art music, which often merged elements of East and West, contributed to the formation of Russia's national identity.

Author : David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300162899

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Russian Orientalism by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye Pdf

Here, the author examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. He argues that the Russian Empire's bi-continental geography and the complicated nature of its encounter with Asia have all resulted in a variegated understanding of the East among its people.

Author : Olʹga Atroshchenko,Irina Bagdami︠a︡n,V. Ė Bulatov,David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye,Karina Solovʹeva
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Exoticism in art
ISBN : 9056627627

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Russia's Unknown Orient by Olʹga Atroshchenko,Irina Bagdami︠a︡n,V. Ė Bulatov,David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye,Karina Solovʹeva Pdf

The Groninger Museum has established a reputation for its successful exhibitions about nienteenth-century Russian art. This is the fifth major exhibition that the Groninger Museum has devoted to Russian art in recent years, continuing the series of exceptional presentations of Ilya Repin's oeuvre, Russian landscapes, the circle around Diaghilev and the exhibition on 'Russian legends, folk tales and fairy tales', which was highly popular with families. In this exhibition the Groninger Museum turns the spotlight on the symbolic, aesthetic and moral aspects of Russia's orient. Exhibition: Groninger Museum (19.12.2010-8.5.2011).

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804153867

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Orientalism by Edward W. Said Pdf

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

Author : Essad Bey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783929345803

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Blood and Oil in the Orient by Essad Bey Pdf

In his lively and witty quasi-autobiography, Essad Bey tells us the story of his childhood in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and of his flight from the Russian Revolution in 1917, which brought him through half the Orient, through the Caucasus, then to Istanbul - where this book concludes - and finally to Berlin.

Author : Michael Kemper,Stephan Conermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136838545

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The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies by Michael Kemper,Stephan Conermann Pdf

This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental tradition was deeply linked to politics – probably even more than other European ‘Orientalisms’. It breaks new ground by providing Western and post-Soviet insider views especially on the features that set Soviet Oriental studies apart from what we know about its Western counterparts: for example, the involvement of scholars in state-supported anti-Islamic agitation; the early and strong integration of ‘Orientals’ into the scientific institutions; the spread of Oriental scholarship over the ‘Oriental’ republics of the USSR and its role in the Marxist reinterpretation of the histories of these areas. The authors demonstrate the declared emancipating agenda of Soviet scholarship, with its rhetoric of anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism, made Oriental studies a formidable tool for Soviet foreign policy towards the Muslim World; and just like in the West, the Iranian Revolution and the mujahidin resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan necessitated a thorough redefinition of Soviet Islamic studies in the early 1980s. Overall, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of Soviet Oriental studies, exploring different aspects of writing on Islam and Muslim history, societies, and literatures. It also shows how the legacy of Soviet Oriental studies is still alive, especially in terms of interpretative frameworks and methodology; after 1991, Soviet views on Islam have contributed significantly to nation-building in the various post-Soviet and Russian ‘Muslim’ republics.

Author : Nadia O'Carroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0994456905

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Snow, Sea and Spies by Nadia O'Carroll Pdf

Author : Vitaly Naumkin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047402473

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Russian Oriental Studies by Vitaly Naumkin Pdf

This collection of articles by leading Russian Orientalists, from different universities and research institutes of Russia, covers a wide range of research fields: politics and power, history, economics and society, language, philosophy and culture. The Russian authors base their works on rare sources. They examine here ancient and medieval history and culture of Oriental societies including articles on Indian mythology, kalam in Islam, classical Indonesian concepts of monarchy, Caucasus in the Abbasid period etc. There will also be a focus on modern Asian and African societies with articles on agriculture in India, monarchy in Cambodia, kleptocracy in Africa, Chinese migration to Siberia etc.). Furthermore in this volume, cultural vocabularies and sacred texts will be analysed. The volume will be useful for all academics and students interested in Asia and Africa.

Author : J. L. Wisenthal,Sherrill E. Grace,Melinda Boyd
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802088017

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A Vision of the Orient by J. L. Wisenthal,Sherrill E. Grace,Melinda Boyd Pdf

Best known as the story from the 1904 Puccini opera, the compelling modern myth of Madame Butterfly has been read, watched, and re-interpreted for many years. This volume examines the Madame Butterfly narrative in a variety of cultural contexts - literary, musical, theatrical, cinematic, historical, and political.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015039395044

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Luzac & Co.'s Oriental List by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kevork Oskanian
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030697136

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Russian Exceptionalism between East and West by Kevork Oskanian Pdf

This monograph provides a novel long-term approach to the role of Russia’s imperial legacies in its interactions with the former Soviet space. It develops ‘Hybrid Exceptionalism’ as a critical conceptual tool aimed at uncovering the great power’s self-positioning between ‘East’ and ‘West’, and its hierarchical claims over subalterns situated in both civilizational imaginaries. It explores how, in the Tsarist, Soviet, and contemporary eras, distinct civilizational spaces were created, and maintained, through narratives and practices emanating from Russia’s ambiguous relationship with Western modernity, and its part-identification with a subordinated ‘Orient’. The Romanov Empire’s struggles with ‘Russianness’, the USSR’s Marxism-Leninism, and contemporary Russia’s combination of feigned liberal and civilizational discourses are explored as the basis of a series of successive civilising missions, through an interdisciplinary engagement with official discourses, scholarship, and the arts. The book concludes with an exploration of contemporary policy implications for the West, and the former Soviet states themselves.

Author : Matthias Neumann,Andy Willimott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317359357

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Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide by Matthias Neumann,Andy Willimott Pdf

The Russian Revolution of 1917 has often been presented as a complete break with the past, with everything which had gone before swept away, and all aspects of politics, economy and society reformed and made new.? Recently, however, historians have increasingly come to question this view, discovering that Tsarist Russia was much more entangled in the processes of modernisation, and that the new regime contained much more continuity than has previously been acknowledged.? This book presents new research findings on a range of different aspects of Russian society, both showing how there was much change before 1917, and much continuity afterwards, and also going beyond this to show that the new Soviet regime established in the 1920s, with its vision of the New Soviet Person, was in fact based on a complicated mixture of new Soviet thinking and ideas developed before 1917 by a variety of non-Bolshevik movements.