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Title Russia's people of empire : life stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the present / edited by Stephen M. Norris and Willard Sunderland
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 365 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction: Russia's people of empire / Stephen M. Norris and Willard Sunderland -- Ermak Timofeevich (1530s/40s-1585) / Willard Sunderland -- Simeon Bekbulatovich (?-1616) / Donald Ostrowski -- Timofei Ankudinov (1617?-1653) / Maureen Perrie -- Gavril Romanovich Nikitin (?-1698) / Erika Monahan -- Boris Ivanovich Korybut-Kurakin (1676-1727) / Ernest A. Zitser -- Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) / Michael D. Gordin -- Catherine the Great (1729-1796) / Hilde Hoogenboom -- Petr Ivanovich Bagration (1765-1812) / Sean Pollock -- Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch (1768-1835) / Alexander M. Martin -- Imam Shamil (1797-1871) / Rebecca Gould -- Zalumma Agra, the "star of the East" (fl. 1860s) / Charles King -- Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) / Theodore R. Weeks -- Archbishop Innokentii (Borisov, 1800-1857) / Mara Kozelsky -- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852) / Edyta Bojanowska -- Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) / Richard Stites -- Aleksandr Borodin (1833-1887) / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye -- Kutlu-Mukhammad Batyr-Gireevich Tevkelev (1850-?) and family / Charles Steinwedel -- Petr Badmaev (1851-1919) / David McDonald -- Ekaterina Sabashnikova-Baranovskaia (1859-?) / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867-1951) / Bradley D. Woodworth -- Mathilde Kshesinskaia (1872-1971) / Krista Sigler -- Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) / Alexandra Harrington -- Aleksandr Germano (1893-1955) / Brigid O'Keeffe -- Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich (1893-1991) / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) / John MacKay -- Mukhtar Auezov (1897-1961) / Michael Rouland -- Jahon Obidova (1900-1967) / Marianne Kamp -- Olzhas Suleimenov (1936- ) / Marlene Laruelle -- Boris Akunin (Grigorii Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, 1956- ) / Stephen M. Norris -- Vladislav Surkov (1964- ) / Karen Dawisha
Summary "A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies. For six centuries this diversity was contained within the sprawling territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and it persists today in the entwined states and societies of the former USSR. Russia's People of Empire explores this enduring multicultural world through life stories of 31 individuals--famous and obscure, high born and low, men and women--that illuminate the cross-cultural exchanges at work from the late 1500s to post-Soviet Russia. Working on the scale of a single life, these microhistories shed new light on the multicultural character of the Russian Empire, which both shaped individuals' lives and in turn was shaped by them."--Project Muse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes "One of the fundamental dimensions of the Russian experience has been the diversity of people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies -- often stitched together in incongruous ways. For centuries this diversity was contained within the sprawling territories of the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union, the empire's twentieth-century successor. Today we find it in the still densely interconnected states and societies of the former USSR. In this volume, we set out to explore this enduring world of diversity through life stories. To guide us, we have selected thirty-one individuals. Some, such as the Empress Alexandra and Stalin, are well known; others are more obscure. Each shows us the terrain in new and thought-provoking ways."--Introduction
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Subject Cultural pluralism -- Russia
Cultural pluralism -- Soviet Union
Cultural pluralism -- Russia (Federation)
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Cultural pluralism
SUBJECT Russia -- Biography
Soviet Union -- Biography
Russia (Federation) -- Biography
Subject Russia
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Norris, Stephen M., editor
Sunderland, Willard, 1965- editor.
LC no. 2011053060
ISBN 9780253001849
0253001846
0253001765
9780253001764
9786613673428
6613673420