DOCSLIB.ORG

Tracing the Roots of Colonial History and Orientology in Russia (Cultura. Vol. XII, No. 1 (2015))

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Tracing the Roots of Colonial History and Orientology in Russia (Cultura. Vol. XII, No. 1 (2015)) CULTURA CULTURA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE CULTURA AND AXIOLOGY Founded in 2004, Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of 2015 Culture and Axiology is a semiannual peer-reviewed journal devo- 1 2015 Vol XII No 1 ted to philosophy of culture and the study of value. It aims to pro- mote the exploration of different values and cultural phenomena in regional and international contexts. The editorial board encourages the submission of manuscripts based on original research that are judged to make a novel and important contribution to understan- ding the values and cultural phenomena in the contempo rary world. CULTURE AND AXIOLOGY CULTURE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY INTERNATIONAL ISBN 978-3-631-66651-7 www.peterlang.com CULTURA 2015_266651_VOL_12_No1_GR_A5Br.indd 1 01.06.15 KW 23 13:21 CULTURA CULTURA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE CULTURA AND AXIOLOGY Founded in 2004, Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of 2015 Culture and Axiology is a semiannual peer-reviewed journal devo- 1 2015 Vol XII No 1 ted to philosophy of culture and the study of value. It aims to pro- mote the exploration of different values and cultural phenomena in regional and international contexts. The editorial board encourages the submission of manuscripts based on original research that are judged to make a novel and important contribution to understan- ding the values and cultural phenomena in the contempo rary world. CULTURE AND AXIOLOGY CULTURE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY INTERNATIONAL www.peterlang.com CULTURA 2015_266651_VOL_12_No1_GR_A5Br.indd 1 01.06.15 KW 23 13:21 CULTURA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE AND AXIOLOGY Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology E-ISSN (Online): 2065-5002 ISSN (Print): 1584-1057 Advisory Board Prof. Dr. David Altman, Instituto de Ciencia Política, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Prof. Emeritus Dr. Horst Baier, University of Konstanz, Germany Prof. Dr. David Cornberg, University Ming Chuan, Taiwan Prof. Dr. Paul Cruysberghs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Prof. Dr. Nic Gianan, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines Prof. Dr. Marco Ivaldo, Department of Philosophy “A. Aliotta”, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Prof. Dr. Michael Jennings, Princeton University, USA Prof. Dr. Maximiliano E. Korstanje, University of Palermo, Argentina Prof. Dr. Richard L. Lanigan, Southern Illinois University, USA Prof. Dr. Christian Lazzeri, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France Prof. Dr. Massimo Leone, University of Torino, Italy Prof. Dr. Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain Prof. Dr. Christian Möckel, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Prof. Dr. Devendra Nath Tiwari, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India Prof. Dr. José María Paz Gago, University of Coruña, Spain Prof. Dr. Mario Perniola, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy Prof. Dr. Traian D. Stănciulescu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iassy, Romania Prof. Dr. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Purdue University & Ghent University Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief: Co-Editors: Prof. dr. Nicolae Râmbu Prof. dr. Aldo Marroni Faculty of Philosophy and Social- Dipartimento di Lettere, Arti e Scienze Sociali Political Sciences Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Via dei Vestini, 31, 66100 Chieti Scalo, Italy B-dul Carol I, nr. 11, 700506 Iasi, Romania [email protected] [email protected] PD Dr. Till Kinzel Executive Editor: Englisches Seminar Dr. Simona Mitroiu Technische Universität Braunschweig, Human Sciences Research Department Bienroder Weg 80, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University 38106 Braunschweig, Germany Lascar Catargi, nr. 54, 700107 Iasi, Romania [email protected] [email protected] Editorial Assistant: Dr. Marius Sidoriuc Designer: Aritia Poenaru Cultura International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology Vol. 12, No. 1 (2015) Editor-in-Chief Nicolae Râmbu Guest Editors: I-Chun Wang and Asun López-Varela Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Umschlagabbildung: © Aritia Poenaru ISSN 2065-5002 ISBN 978-3-631-66651-7 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-653-05998-4 (E-Book) DOI 10.3726/978-3-653-05998-4 © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Frankfurt am Main 2015 All rights reserved. Peter Lang Edition is an Imprint of Peter Lang GmbH. Peter Lang – Frankfurt am Main · Bern · Bruxelles · New York · Oxford · Warszawa · Wien All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com CONTENTS ALLEGORIES OF IMPERIALISM: BARBARIANS AND WORLD CULTURES I-Chun Wang & Asun López-Varela 7 Allegories of Imperialism: Barbarians and World Cultures David Lea 17 Sovereignty, Linguistic Imperialism and the Quantification of Reality Abobo Kumbalonah 31 The Invention of a Philosophy: Postcolonialism in the Context of Akan Proverbs Antonia Peroikou 45 Speaking (of) the Unspoken: Exploring the Mystery behind Friday’s Severed Tongue in Coetzee’s Foe Temisanren Ebijuwa &Adeniyi Sulaiman Gbadegesin 57 Mediating Ethnic Identities: Reaching Consensus through Dialogue in an African Society Shiuhhuah Serena Chou 71 Claiming the Sacred: Indigenous Knowledge, Spiritual Ecology, and the Emergence of Eco-cosmopolitanism Stephen Joyce 85 The Fearful Merging of Self and Other: Intra-civilizational and Inter-civilizational Colonial Cultures in Richard E. Kim’s Lost Names Oxana Karnaukhova 99 Tracing the Roots of Colonial History and Orientology in Russia Michaela Keck 115 Culture-Crossing in Madison Smartt Bell’s Haitian Trilogy and Neo-Captivity Narrative Mary Theis 129 Ideal Isolation for the Greater Good: The Hazards of Postcolonial Freedom Maximiliano Korstanje 145 Constructing the Other by Means of Hospitality: the Case of Argentina Liudmila Baeva & Anna Romanova 159 Challenges to Frontier Allegories: the Caspian Sea Region in Southern Russia Soon-ok Myong & Byong-soon Chun 173 Cultural Politics of Otherizing Hijabed Muslims in Kazakhstan Nurlykhan Aljanova & Karlygash Borbassova 18 Etiquette Rules and Intercultural Relations in Kazakh Society after Independence from the Soviet Union Jinghua Guo 197 The Multi-dimensional Model of Cross-Cultural Interpretation as an Anti-centralist Tool in World Literature Perspectives Huiyong Wu 211 The Impact of Confucianism on Chinese Representations of Japanese Imperialism as well as on International Relations Simon C. Estok 221 Bull and Barbarity, Feeding the World 10.5840/cultura20151218 Cultura. International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology 12(1)/2015: 99–114 Tracing the Roots of Colonial History and Orientology in Russia Oxana Karnaukhova Southern Federal University, Russia B. Sadovaya Street, 105 Rostov-on-Don, Russia, 344023 [email protected] Abstract. In this paper, I focus on the idea of identity hybridization, assuming that multicultural models, relevant for each type of state, depend on complex historical, socio-cultural, and political contexts. This hypothesis directs my inquiry into Rus- sia’s colonial and postcolonial past, contemplated in relation to European develop- ment as well as with similar situations in other parts of the globe. My review of in- tellectual discussions on the topic and of Russian Orientology in particular show that the complexity of Russian national identity can be traced back to contradictions within the process of European intellectual colonization, as well as to Russia’s reali- zation of the Orthodox civilizing mission in its own empire. I propose the expres- sion “secondary orientalism” to refer to the Russian situation. Keywords: Eurasia, Colonial History, Nationalism, Orientology, Orientalism, Russia INTRODUCTION Orientology is the study of the indigenous cultures of the ancient East or the Orient. It developed particularly in the late 18th century after Euro- pean museums began to be filled with treasures from those remote re- gions, by then colonial territories. Thus, these studies were influenced by European modern imperial history and inevitable ties with civilizing atti- tudes and a naïve fascination with the exotic Eastern barbarians. In his 1978 book, Palestinan-American scholar Edward Said captured the es- sentialist patronizing attitude of the West towards Middle Eastern, Asian and African societies under the term “Orientalism,” and claimed that Oriental culture was a fabricated imperial version of the colonial Other, giving rise to the emergence of post-colonial and subaltern studies, par- ticularly successful in the context of the Cold War (1947–1991), which split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, and left the Soviet Union or USSR and the United States as two superpowers with deep economic and political differences. 99 Oxana Karnaukhova / Tracing the Roots of Colonial History Since the 1990s, the global informational panorama brought about by the media revolution has heightened collaboration between intellectuals across the world, triggering debates on the lacuna of identity politics at a transnational level.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • On Russian Music Might Win It
    37509_u01.qxd 5/19/08 4:04 PM Page 27 1 Some Thoughts on the History and Historiography of Russian Music A preliminary version of this chapter was read as a paper in a symposium or- ganized by Malcolm H. Brown on “Fifty Years of American Research in Slavic Music,” given at the fiftieth national meeting of the American Musicological Society, on 27 October 1984. The other participants in the symposium and their topics were Barbara Krader (Slavic Ethnic Musics), Milos Velimirovic (Slavic Church Music), Malcolm H. Brown (Russian Music—What Has Been Done), Laurel Fay (The Special Case of Soviet Music—Problems of Method- ology), and Michael Beckerman (Czech Music Research). Margarita Mazo served as respondent. My assigned topic for this symposium was “What Is to Be Done,” but being no Chernïshevsky, still less a Lenin, I took it on with reluctance. I know only too well the fate of research prospectuses. All the ones I’ve seen, whatever the field, have within only a few years taken on an aspect that can be most charitably described as quaint, and the ones that have attempted to dictate or legislate the activity of future generations of scholars cannot be so charitably described. It is not as though we were trying to find a long- sought medical cure or a solution to the arms race. We are not crusaders, nor have we an overriding common goal that demands the subordina- tion of our individual predilections to a team effort. We are simply curious to know and understand the music that interests us as well as we possibly can, and eager to stimulate the same interest in others.
    [Show full text]
  • Birthright Democracy: Nationhood and Constitutional Self-Government in History
    BIRTHRIGHT DEMOCRACY: NATIONHOOD AND CONSTITUTIONAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN HISTORY By Ethan Alexander-Davey A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Political Science) at the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON 2013 Date of final oral examination: 8/16/13 The dissertation is approved by the following members of the Final Oral Committee: Richard Avramenko, Political Science Daniel Kapust, Political Science James Klausen, Political Science Howard Schweber, Political Science Johann Sommerville, History i Abstract How did constitutionally limited government and democracy emerge in the West? Many scholars from many different perspectives have attempted to answer this question. I identify the emergence of these forms of self-government with early modern nationalism. Broadly speaking, nationalism of the right sort provides indispensable resources both for united popular resistance against autocratic rule, and for the formation and legitimation of national systems self- governance. Resistance and self-government both require a national consciousness that includes a myth of national origin, a national language, a common faith, and, crucially, native traditions of self-government, and stories of heroic ancestors who successfully defended those traditions against usurpers and tyrants. It is through national consciousness that abstract theories of resistance and self-government become concrete and tenable. It is though national fellowship that the idea of a political nation, possessing the right to make rulers accountable to its will, comes into existence and is sustained over time. My arguments basically fall under two headings, historical and theoretical. By an examination of the nationalist political thought of early modern European countries, I intend to establish important historical connections between the rise of nationalism and the emergence of self-government.
    [Show full text]
  • 2. Svetoslav Manoulov. Joseph De Mestre
    ALMANACH VIA EVRASIA, 2013, 2 Svetoslav Manoilov, Dr. (Russian History) Eurasia center VIA EVRASIA JOSEPH DE MESTRE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE RUSSIAN CONSERVATISM One of the most important preconditions for the spread of the European conservatism in Russia was the residence of some members of this political party in the empire. Russia was one of the favourite places for settlement of French immigrants as they join its military and civil service. One of the main representatives of European conservatism living in Russia since the beginning of the XIX century was Joseph de Maistre. This study examines the stay of Joseph de Maistre in the Eastern empire, his impact on the Russian society, and particularly, his influence in the foundation of the Russian conservative ideology. His impact on the conservative ideology in Europe is so significant that even nowadays his personality and political philosophy arise interest among scholars. However, there are controversial opinions in historiography. R. Triomphe1 defines him as "an ideologue of absolute power and mystical materialism". I. Berlin2 as “cruel prophet of our time and precursor of fascism”, J.-L. Darcell3 as “cosmopolitan searching for unity”. F. Verimiale4 studies the years in exile of Joseph de Maistre, J. Murray5 - his political philosophy. Another interesting research is that of C. Armenteros, 1 Triomphe, R. Joseph de Maistre. Etude sur la vie et sur la doctrine d'un materialiste mystique (Geneve, 1968). 2 Berlin, I. Joseph de Maistre and the origins of Fascism (The New York Rewiew of Books, 1990). 3 Darcel, J.-L. La «conversion» de J. de Maistre (1789-1791): a propos de notes marginales attribuees a J.
    [Show full text]
  • Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/30/2021 05:40:26AM Via Free Access
    1. The rise of an unstable century At the dawn of the twentieth century, the European powers confronted two major geopolitical weaknesses. The first one related to the future of the Tsarist Empire, the second to the escalating fragmentation of the so-called “sick man of Europe”, that is, the Ottoman Empire and, broadly speaking, the Balkan Peninsula. In reality, since 1809, the European powers were concerned about a potential “booming revolution” in the Tsarist Empire.1 The debates were vivid among intellectuals and in political circles, but they reached their peak when the 1905 revolution threatened, for a while, the implosion of Russia and the stability of Europe. Until that moment, reactionary circles feared that any reform – including those introduced during the Enlightenment, those dealing with the educa- tional reform, and those related to the foundation of the Academy – would encourage the lower popular strata and potentially most of the peasants to a rebellion. Joseph de Maistre and the Marquis de Coustine, for example, as well as the Slavophiles in Russia belonged to this mainstream. Others, by contrast, believed that the autocratic regime, particularly promoted by Nicholas I, was so refractory to any reform that the only way to achieve change was by revolution. From Narodniks to Anarchists and Marxists, several schools of thought, both in Russia and in Western Europe, nur- tured that belief. To a large extent, these opinions were mainly connected to the unbalanced social relations in the Tsarist Empire, that is, the polari- zation between landowners and peasantry, as well as the industrial – and the broader economic – backwardness of the country.
    [Show full text]
  • V.5, N.1 2017 V.5, N.1, 2017
    v.5, n.1 2017 v.5, n.1, 2017 Instituições parceiras do INCT/PPED: UFRJ, UFF, UFRRJ, UFJF, UNICAMP e UERJ v.5, n.1, p.5-8, 2017 1 Desenvolvimento em Debate é uma publicação seriada semestral editada pelo Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Políticas Públicas, Estratégias e Desenvolvimento (INCT-PPED) com o objetivo de divulgar trabalhos científicos originais da área de conhecimento interativa entre as Ciências Humanas, Sociais e Ambientais. COORDENAÇÃO INCT/PPED Renato Boschi e Ana Célia Castro EDITOR Carlos Henrique Santana EDITORA ASSISTENTE Ana Carolina Oliveira CONSELHO EDITORIAL Adel Selmi (INRA, France) Giovanni Dosi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy) Alexandre d´Avingon (UFRJ) Ha-Joon Chang (University of Cambridge, UK) Antonio Márcio Buainain (Unicamp) João Alberto de Negri (IPEA) Bhaven Sampat (Columbia University, USA) Jorge Ávila (INPI) Benjamin Coriat (Université de Paris XIII, France) Lionelo Punzo (Universidade de Siena, Italy) Carlos Eduardo Young (UFRJ) Mario Possas (UFRJ) Carlos Morel (Fiocruz) Marta Irving (UFRJ) Celina Souza (UFBA) Peter Evans (University of California, Charles Pessanha (UFRJ) Berkeley, USA) Cristina Possas (UFRJ) Peter May (UFRRJ) Diego Sanchez Anchochea (University Renato Boschi (IESP) of Oxford, UK ) Sérgio Salles (Unicamp) Eduardo Condé (UFJF) Shulin Gu (University of Beijin, China) Erik Reinert (University of Oslo, Norway) Valéria da Vinha (UFRJ) Eli Diniz (UFRJ) Victor Ranieri (USP) Estela Neves (UFRJ) Contato: [email protected] Acesse nosso site : http://desenvolvimentoemdebate.ie.ufrj.br Desenvolvimento em Debate / Ana Célia Castro, Renato Boschi (Coordenadores) Rio de Janeiro, volume 5, numero 1, 2017 132p. 1. Desenvolvimento 2. Estado 3.Políticas Públicas 4.
    [Show full text]
  • The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
    THE COSSACK MYTH In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled The History of the Rus′, it became one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era. Attributed to an eighteenth-century Orthodox archbishop, it described the heroic struggles of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Alexander Pushkin read the book as a manifestation of Russian national spirit, but Taras Shevchenko interpreted it as a quest for Ukrainian national liberation, and it would inspire thousands of Ukrainians to fight for the freedom of their homeland. Serhii Plokhy tells the fascinating story of the text’s discovery and dissemination, unravelling the mystery of its authorship and tracing its subsequent impact on Russian and Ukrainian historical and literary imagination. In so doing, he brilliantly illuminates the relationship between history, myth, empire, and nationhood, from Napoleonic times to the fall of the Soviet Union. serhii plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. His previous publications include Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past (2008)andThe Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (2006). Downloaded from Cambridge Books Online by IP 210.212.129.125 on Sun Dec 23 05:35:34 WET 2012. http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139135399 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2012 new studies in european history Edited by PETER
    [Show full text]
  • Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History
    German Romantic Nationalism and Indian Cultural Tradition A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History By Alexei Vladimirovich Pimenov, M.A. Washington, DC November 18, 2015 Copyright 2015 by Alexei Vladimirovich Pimenov All Rights Reserved ii Alexei Vladimirovich Pimenov, M.A. Thesis Advisor: Catherine Evtuhov, Ph.D. Abstract This Dissertation examines the German Romantic fascination with India, the country thought by many German Romantics to be the original home of the Urvolk, considered by these thinkers to be the direct ancestors of the German people themselves. In analyzing this German Romantic self-representation through India within the context of the Romantic critique of European modernity, the Dissertation considers this phenomenon as a case of the Romantic re-integration project. The Dissertation juxtaposes four figures – Friedrich Schlegel, Otmar Frank, Joseph Goerres, and Arthur Schopenhauer – who are particularly representative of those German Romantic thinkers who were influenced by Indian culture and who applied the Indian models to their interpretations of world history. These interpretations were rooted in the models developed by the missionaries and the Enlightenment thinkers who looked for the original monotheism outside the biblical tradition. The Romantics, however, highlighted not only the religious but also the national dimension of the connection between the original home of the Urvolk and its descendants in the modern German-speaking realm. In tracing the Urvolk ’s migration from India to the West, Friedrich Schlegel used as his explanatory model the Brahmanic narrative of the degenerated warriors becoming barbarians due to their failure to observe the dharma.
    [Show full text]
  • Georges Frédéric Parrot
    ActaRaul VeedeBaltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum Vol. 7, No. 3 (Autumn 2019) DOI : 10.11590/abhps.2019.3.10 BOOK REVIEW Tohvri, Epi. Georges Frédéric Parrot: Tartu Keiserliku Ülikooli esimene rektor [Georges Frédéric Parrot: the First Rector of the Imperial University of Tartu], Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2019, ISBN 9789949031436, 1072pp. Epi Tohvri’s monograph on Georges Frédéric Parrot, the first rector of the University of Tartu, fills a veritable void in the academic literature. Most likely, though, its international impact will have to wait until there will be a translation into some other, more popular language than Estonian. To a large extent, Parrot’s scant academic coverage is, paradoxically, due to his influence. That French-born, German- made, Russian-flourished scientist and educator is still mostly known as the rector who re-established the Livonian university after a century-long hiatus, while his influence in the educational policies of Tsarist Russia has remained a once well-known secret. The attempts to summarize Parrot’s close relationships to two rulers of the Russian Empire, Alexander I and Nicholas I, were largely silenced by their political sensitivity up to World War I, after which the currents of scholarship shifted elsewhere, documents were scattered, and Russian imperial archives still did not become exactly easily accessible for a long time. That is why it has only become possible nowadays to gather all the data from the collections in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and France, as Epi Tohvri has done through her meticulous work. Indeed, the sheer amount of effort made here is staggering, as a monograph of a thousand pages should not be taken, written, or dropped lightly.
    [Show full text]
  • The Russian Orthodox Church Faith, Power and Conquest
    REPORT The Russian Orthodox Church Faith, Power And Conquest December 2019 James Sherr Kaarel Kullamaa Title: The Russian Orthodox Church: Faith, Power and Conquest Author(s): Sherr, James; Kullamaa, Kaarel Publication date: December 2019 Category: Report Cover page photo: A Russian Orthodox priest blesses new Kalashnikov machine guns during a cer- emony presenting the new weapons to recently enlisted members of Russia s elite "OMON" riot police corps in Stavropol, 29 January 2008. AFP PHOTO / DANIL SEMYONOV Keywords: religion, faith, orthodox church, power, influence, foreign policy, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine Disclaimer: The views and opinions contained in this paper are solely those of its author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the International Centre for Defence and Security or any other organisation. ISSN 2228-0529 ISBN 978-9949-7385-3-3 (PRINT) ISBN 978-9949-7385-4-0 (PDF) ©International Centre for Defence and Security 63/4 Narva Rd., 10152 Tallinn, Estonia [email protected], www.icds.ee The Russian Orthodox Church I Acknowledgments We are very grateful to Konstantin von Eggert, former Editor-in-Chief, BBC Russian Service Moscow Bureau, and currently correspondent at Deutsche Welle and Dozhd’, for his detailed scrutiny and enlightening comments on the draft of this report. We would also like to thank our colleagues, Kristi Raik, Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at ICDS, and Dmitri Teperik, Chief Executive of ICDS, for their insights on Estonia and their helpful queries, which have contributed to the clarity of the analysis. In addition, we would like to thank Rihards Kols and Lukasz Adamski for their observations and assistance.
    [Show full text]
  • This Work Is Protected by Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Rights
    This work is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights and duplication or sale of all or part is not permitted, except that material may be duplicated by you for research, private study, criticism/review or educational purposes. Electronic or print copies are for your own personal, non- commercial use and shall not be passed to any other individual. No quotation may be published without proper acknowledgement. For any other use, or to quote extensively from the work, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder/s. RUSSIAN MATERIALISM: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY MATERIALIST TRADITION COLIN CHANT PH.D. THESIS 1977 IMAGING SERVICES NORTH *• i *• « t \ h RARY Boston Spa, Wetherby West Yorkshire, LS23 7BQ www.bl.uk BEST COPY AVAILABLE. VARIABLE PRINT QUALITY ABSTRACT The principal aim of this thesis is to take a step towards a fuller coverage in this language of the history of Russian materialism and atheism« It is divided into Three Parts« The first discusses the transition from German idealism in the 1830s to materialism and atheism from the l840s onwards amongst the intelligentsia; particular attention is given to the vogue for Feuerbach, and it is suggested that his appeal for the Russians lay in a materialism which admitted the mental but debarred the spiritual, i«e., allowed for a moral critique of Tsarism not only outside of, but in opposition to, religion« The first part ends with an analysis of Lenin*s Materialism and Empiriocritisism« both to compare his own stance with that of Feuerbach,
    [Show full text]
  • Russian/Soviet 'Iranology' and Russo-Iranian
    Oriental Studies and Foreign Policy: Russian/Soviet ‘Iranology’ and Russo-Iranian relations in late Imperial Russia and the early USSR A thesis submitted to the University of Manchester for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Humanities 2014 Denis V. Volkov School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Table of Contents List of Contents.....................................................................................................................2 Alphabetical List of Abbreviations and Acronyms...........................................................5 List of Archives used for research (Russia and Georgia).................................................9 Abstract...............................................................................................................................10 Declaration……………………………………………….……………………………….11 Copyright Statement…………………………………………………………………….11 A Note on Transliteration……………………………………………………………….12 Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………..13 About the Author………………………………………………………………………14 Introduction........................................................................................................................15 Research context and rationale...................................................................................15 Statement of method...................................................................................................20 Chapter One Theoretical framework: Foucauldian notions and their applicability to the Russian Case………………..……………………………… 26 Introduction………………………..…………….……….………………..………26
    [Show full text]
  • Patterns of Governance in the Western Borderlands of the Tsarist Empire
    University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations Dissertations and Theses Spring October 2014 Imperial Janus: Patterns of Governance in the Western Borderlands of the Tsarist Empire Nicklaus Laverty University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2 Part of the Other History Commons, and the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Laverty, Nicklaus, "Imperial Janus: Patterns of Governance in the Western Borderlands of the Tsarist Empire" (2014). Doctoral Dissertations. 148. https://doi.org/10.7275/dntd-d758 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/148 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Imperial Janus: Patterns of Governance in the Western Borderlands of the Tsarist Empire A Dissertation Presented by NICKLAUS LAVERTY Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY February 2014 Department of Political Science © Copyright by Nicklaus Laverty 2014 All Rights Reserved Imperial Janus: Patterns of Governance in the Western Borderlands of the Tsarist Empire A Dissertation Presented By NICKLAUS LAVERTY Approved as to style and content by: _________________________________________________ Jillian Schwedler, Chair _________________________________________________ Sergey Glebov, Member _________________________________________________ Amel Ahmed, Member __________________________________________ Brian Schaffner, Department Head Department of Political Science DEDICATION To my wife, Mikaela, and my daughter, Annika. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my advisor, Dr.
    [Show full text]