The Old Believers in Imperial Russia: Oppression, Opportunism and Religious Identity in Tsarist Moscow 1838609539, 9781838609535

The Old Believers in Imperial Russia: Oppression, Opportunism and Religious Identity in Tsarist Moscow 9781350988989, 9781838609542

Two Romes have fallen. The third stands. And there will be no fourth.' So spoke Russian monk Hegumen Filofei of Psk

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Social Identity in Imperial Russia 9781501757570

She portrays Russian Enlightenment culture on its own terms, while at the same time shedding light on broader problems o

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Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia 9781501726729

At the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, a gradual shift occurred in the ways in which Eu

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Window on the East: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia 0801476038, 9780801476037

Robert Geraci presents an exceptionally original account of both the politics and the lived experience of diversity in a

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On the Religious Frontier: Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus 9780755609321, 9781784539184

This book examines the history of Muslim Azerbaijan under Christian Orthodox Russian imperial rule and the attempts of t

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On the Religious Frontier: Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus 178453918X, 9781784539184

Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, w

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Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia 9780804792448

Moscow in Movement is the first exhaustive study of social movements, protest, and the state-society relationship in Vla

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Understanding Imperial Russia: State and Society in the Old Regime 9780231898997

Examines Russia's past back to the distant epoch which saw the emergence and consolidation of the empire of the tsa

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French and Russian in Imperial Russia: Language Attitudes and Identity 9780748695546

Explores how knowledge of French helped shape Russian identities and their views on the Russian language This is the se

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Renaissance Influences and Religious Reforms in Russia

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