The annexation of the Grand Duchy of Finland by the Russian Empire after the victorious war with Sweden in 1808–1809 sharply changed the military-political situation in the Baltic. Into the hands of the Russians fell a vast territory with such
Michael Hughes
. That honour went instead to Russia, in which much of the action in Le Queux's early novels was set. In the 1890s he was convinced that Russia – along with France – posed the greatest threat to Britain's security (the two countries were from 1894 bound
Larisa Deriglazova
This article aims to reconsider the fluctuation and composition of feelings of belonging to Europe in Russia during the last twenty-five years. 1 This period is remarkable not only due to Russia’s own development, and search for a new identity out
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- Research Article
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- 75–97
Iver B. Neumann
Since the state’s very inception, and particularly since Peter the Great opened a window on Europe, Russia has been obsessed with its relationship to Europe. It would not be an overstatement to hold that Russia defines itself primarily in relation
Geographical Imagination, Anthropology, and Political Exiles
Photographers of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia
Tatiana Saburova
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Russian society acquired a durable image of Siberia formulated through geography and history textbooks, fiction and travelogues, and actively disseminated by the periodical press. 1 The works of Anton
The Complexity of History
Russia and Steven Pinker’s Thesis
Nancy Shields Kollmann
, and leery of so long, broad, and universalizing an argument. I find the most intriguing part of the book, in fact, to be the exceptions Pinker cites to his observed patterns. When I consider early modern Russia, what strikes me are the ways in which
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- Research Article
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- 41–53
A Visitor's Guide to Shamans and Shamanism
The Kunstkamera's Russian and Asian Ethnographic Collections in the Late Imperial Era
Marisa Karyl Franz
displays of Siberian and Central Asian ethnography and, in particular, the shamanic materials within these collections. The article traces the changes in the museum that distanced Russia in Asia from Russia in Europe and how shamanism became a dominant
Nash
Appropriating Siberia for the Russian Empire
Claudia Weiss
Siberia is more than a region of Russia; it is also an integral part of how Russians understand themselves. This cultural historical article examines the process by which Russians incorporated Siberia through the ideology of nash (ours; female nasha, neuter nashe), a possessive term that has deep roots in Russian literary and philosophical traditions. The author argues that it is important for us to understand the 'mental appropriation' of Siberia in order to understand its place in Russia today.
Ambiguous Attachments and Industrious Nostalgias
Heritage Narratives of Russian Old Believers in Romania
Cristina Clopot
It was during a hot summer day in 2015 when, together with a group of informants, I visited a Russian Old Believers’ church in Climăuți, a Romanian village situated at the border with Ukraine ( Figure 1 ). 1 After attending a church service, our
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 31–51
Native Marriage “Soviet” and “Russian” Style
The Political Economy of Desire and Competing Matrimonial Emotions
Vera Skvirskaja
representatives of the native intelligentsia and ethnographers, who have dealt with the collapse of “traditional” family structures and negative changes in gender relations among indigenous minorities in the Far North of Russia. 2 In a nutshell, their point is