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Abstract
In November 1917, Der Neue Orient, the official organ of the German Intelligence Bureau for the East, published a piece in support of the national movements in revolutionary Russia. Along with the promotion of enfranchisement (Menschenrechte), the mobilization of the non-Russian peoples could, it hoped, engender geopolitical rearrangements altering for the better the course of events in the world and also Germany’s position in it. “The non-Russians [Fremdvölker] ... surround the actual area inhabited by the Great Russians as a mighty ring. Every attempt at expansion undertaken by the Russians would have to pass through the resistance of the people on the periphery of the federation.... The arm grabbing across the border will [thus] be permanently exposed to the risk of being severed from the Russian body.” Liberated, self-conscious, and politically empowered, the national autonomies and sovereignties (Verselbständigung) would absorb the shock of Russia’s imperial thrust before it acquired threatening proportions.1
1917年11月,德国东部情报局的官方机关报《东方新报》(Der Neue Orient)发表了一篇文章,支持革命俄国的民族运动。它希望,在促进公民权的同时,动员非俄罗斯民族可以引起地缘政治的重新安排,使世界事件的进程以及德国在其中的地位朝着更好的方向改变。“非俄罗斯人[Fremdvölker]……围绕着大俄罗斯人居住的地区,形成一个巨大的圆环。俄国人的每一次扩张企图都必须经过联邦外围人民的抵抗....越过边境的手臂将(因此)永远面临着与俄罗斯身体分离的风险。”解放,自我意识和政治权力,民族自治和主权(Verselbständigung)将吸收俄罗斯帝国的冲击之前,它获得威胁的比例
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A leading journal of Russian and Eurasian history and culture, Kritika is dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it regularly translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, reviewed in North American Russian studies journals.