Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906856
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906838
{"title":"Гражданство как субъектность: по ту сторону исторического симбиоза республиканизма и национализма","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/imp.2023.a906838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a906838","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135446260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/imp.2023.a906848
Reviewed by: Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia by Vladimir Nalivkin and Maria Nalivkina Liqun Cai (bio) and Mu Wu (bio) Vladimir Nalivkin and Maria Nalivkina, Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia, edited by Marianne Kamp, translated by Mariana Markova and Marianne Kamp (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016). 242 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-02138-0. Between the early 1860s and the mid-1880s, favorable international circumstances incentivized the expansion of the Russian Empire by keeping the cost of conquests low. During this period, Russia conquered the three Transoxiana khan-ates and subordinated the Turkmen tribes near the Caspian Sea, as well as the Ferghana Valley ruled by the Kokand Khanate. Russian imperial administration was extended to the former khanates' remote areas. In this era of armchair anthropology and ethnography, scientific ethnography was still in the making, and etic ethnographies through participatory observation were relatively rare, let alone the specialized ethnography on indigenous Muslim women. A Sketch of the Everyday Life of Women of the Sedentary Native Population of the Fergana Valley, coauthored by the Nalivkin spouses, was a groundbreaking, detailed [End Page 207] account of the daily lives of Muslim women through the eyes of outsiders. First published in Russian in 1886, this unique ethnography of women is still valuable and has been used repeatedly as a source of information about the culture of Uzbeks and the Fergana Valley during the imperial period. In 2016, the book was translated into English for the first time by the renowned linguist and orientalist Marianne Kamp and the anthropologist Mariana Markova, both of whom contributed to its introduction and commentary. Vladimir Nalivkin was an officer under the command of General Skobelev. He fought in several Russian campaigns but retired, as he could not accept the cruel, immoral way of Russian warfare. Vladimir's military education gave him useful knowledge about terrain and language, as well as observation skills. As for Maria, her high school education in St. Petersburg helped her to collect the majority of materials for the book. The Nalivkins' eight-year-long sojourn in the village of Nanay in the Fergana Valley made them aware of the breakdown and disappearance of the ancient civilization there in the wake of the Russian conquest. They realized the urgency of recording the daily life of the local sedentary population – Sarts – through ethnography. Its detailed description in the book supports the authors' generalizations about the Sart culture, leaving the reader to marvel at the Nalivkins' familiarity with the local language and culture. The book consistently traces two main themes through its ten chapters: Islam and women. Chapter 1 gives a brief description of the geography and environment of Fergana Valley. Chapter 2 describes the Sarts
{"title":"Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia by Vladimir Nalivkin and Maria Nalivkina (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/imp.2023.a906848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2023.a906848","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia by Vladimir Nalivkin and Maria Nalivkina Liqun Cai (bio) and Mu Wu (bio) Vladimir Nalivkin and Maria Nalivkina, Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley: A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia, edited by Marianne Kamp, translated by Mariana Markova and Marianne Kamp (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016). 242 pp., ill. Bibliography. Index. ISBN: 978-0-253-02138-0. Between the early 1860s and the mid-1880s, favorable international circumstances incentivized the expansion of the Russian Empire by keeping the cost of conquests low. During this period, Russia conquered the three Transoxiana khan-ates and subordinated the Turkmen tribes near the Caspian Sea, as well as the Ferghana Valley ruled by the Kokand Khanate. Russian imperial administration was extended to the former khanates' remote areas. In this era of armchair anthropology and ethnography, scientific ethnography was still in the making, and etic ethnographies through participatory observation were relatively rare, let alone the specialized ethnography on indigenous Muslim women. A Sketch of the Everyday Life of Women of the Sedentary Native Population of the Fergana Valley, coauthored by the Nalivkin spouses, was a groundbreaking, detailed [End Page 207] account of the daily lives of Muslim women through the eyes of outsiders. First published in Russian in 1886, this unique ethnography of women is still valuable and has been used repeatedly as a source of information about the culture of Uzbeks and the Fergana Valley during the imperial period. In 2016, the book was translated into English for the first time by the renowned linguist and orientalist Marianne Kamp and the anthropologist Mariana Markova, both of whom contributed to its introduction and commentary. Vladimir Nalivkin was an officer under the command of General Skobelev. He fought in several Russian campaigns but retired, as he could not accept the cruel, immoral way of Russian warfare. Vladimir's military education gave him useful knowledge about terrain and language, as well as observation skills. As for Maria, her high school education in St. Petersburg helped her to collect the majority of materials for the book. The Nalivkins' eight-year-long sojourn in the village of Nanay in the Fergana Valley made them aware of the breakdown and disappearance of the ancient civilization there in the wake of the Russian conquest. They realized the urgency of recording the daily life of the local sedentary population – Sarts – through ethnography. Its detailed description in the book supports the authors' generalizations about the Sart culture, leaving the reader to marvel at the Nalivkins' familiarity with the local language and culture. The book consistently traces two main themes through its ten chapters: Islam and women. Chapter 1 gives a brief description of the geography and environment of Fergana Valley. Chapter 2 describes the Sarts","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135446518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SUMMARY:Mykhaylo Gaukhman surveys the history of development of a new historical canon in independent Ukraine from 1991 to summer 2022. It was June 2022 when a group of Ukrainian historians came up with the concept of a "multifrontier" as the best way to structure the narrative of Ukrainian history. Gaukhman characterizes this concept as metamodernist in the sense of its combining modernist nation-centrism with the postmodernist deconstruction of any rigid identity politics. The latter point seems to be shared by leading Ukrainian historians, who insist on prioritizing a commonality of values over a single normative cultural identity as the foundation of Ukrainian society. They criticize ethnoconfessional particularity as delegitimizing the modern Ukrainian state project that embraces a regionally and culturally diverse society. In this respect, a "multifrontier" perspective fits the bill by combining a multitude of situational arrangements with the singular and all-embracing mode of their interpretation. Following Serhii Plokhy, Gaukhman prefers to speak of a new metanarrative as a new national history that transcends the ethnonational historical canon and engages in dialogue with the global, transnational, multiethnic, and regional histories.
{"title":"В поисках новой истории: историографические дискуссии начала XXI в. о метанарративе истории Украины","authors":"Михаил Гаухман","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0060","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY:Mykhaylo Gaukhman surveys the history of development of a new historical canon in independent Ukraine from 1991 to summer 2022. It was June 2022 when a group of Ukrainian historians came up with the concept of a \"multifrontier\" as the best way to structure the narrative of Ukrainian history. Gaukhman characterizes this concept as metamodernist in the sense of its combining modernist nation-centrism with the postmodernist deconstruction of any rigid identity politics. The latter point seems to be shared by leading Ukrainian historians, who insist on prioritizing a commonality of values over a single normative cultural identity as the foundation of Ukrainian society. They criticize ethnoconfessional particularity as delegitimizing the modern Ukrainian state project that embraces a regionally and culturally diverse society. In this respect, a \"multifrontier\" perspective fits the bill by combining a multitude of situational arrangements with the singular and all-embracing mode of their interpretation. Following Serhii Plokhy, Gaukhman prefers to speak of a new metanarrative as a new national history that transcends the ethnonational historical canon and engages in dialogue with the global, transnational, multiethnic, and regional histories.","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82527188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SUMMARY:Riccardo Nicolosi argues that Putin's regime constructs normative Russianness by cultivating the paranoia, resentment, and reenactment of a mythologized past. Based on a common emotional regime and a politically controlled historical narrative, this identity discourse is fundamentally irrational and hence not falsifiable. Arbitrarily constructed tradition and values bear identity-forming significance and prompt a war on everyone who fails to comply with the normative identity – both inside and outside the country.Резюме:Риккардо Николози размышляет о том, как путинский режимконструирует нормативную русскость посредством культивированияпаранойи, ресентимента и воспроизведения мифологизированногопрошлого. Существование этого дискурса идентичности обеспечивается поддержанием общего эмоционального режима и политическиконтроли руемого исторического нарратива, что делает его принципиально иррациональным и потому не поддающимся верификации. Произвольно сконструированные традиции и ценности являются шаткой основой единства, понуждая к войне со всеми, кто не соответствуетнормативной идентичности – как внутри страны, так и за ее пределами.
{"title":"Paranoia, Resentment, and Reenactment: The Russian Political Discourse on the War in Ukraine","authors":"Riccardo Nicolosi","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0066","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY:Riccardo Nicolosi argues that Putin's regime constructs normative Russianness by cultivating the paranoia, resentment, and reenactment of a mythologized past. Based on a common emotional regime and a politically controlled historical narrative, this identity discourse is fundamentally irrational and hence not falsifiable. Arbitrarily constructed tradition and values bear identity-forming significance and prompt a war on everyone who fails to comply with the normative identity – both inside and outside the country.Резюме:Риккардо Николози размышляет о том, как путинский режимконструирует нормативную русскость посредством культивированияпаранойи, ресентимента и воспроизведения мифологизированногопрошлого. Существование этого дискурса идентичности обеспечивается поддержанием общего эмоционального режима и политическиконтроли руемого исторического нарратива, что делает его принципиально иррациональным и потому не поддающимся верификации. Произвольно сконструированные традиции и ценности являются шаткой основой единства, понуждая к войне со всеми, кто не соответствуетнормативной идентичности – как внутри страны, так и за ее пределами.","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86501791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SUMMARY:Ivan Burmistrov has prepared and annotated extracts for publication from journals kept by the Russian navy officer Evgeny Ivanovich Alekseev (1843–1917). After several decades of active sea service, Vice Admiral Alekseev was appointed viceroy of the Russian Far East, and in this capacity he bears his share of responsibility for provoking the infamous Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. The publication covers the period 1881–1898, when Alekseev commanded ships and whole squadrons, primarily in the Pacific, and traveled across the United States. Burmistrov argues that, despite the laconic and businesslike character of the journals, they register the process of "nationalizing" the imperial subject and the country, as well as the role of the navy in this process.
{"title":"Колониализм и имперский национализм российских флотских элит в Тихоокеанском регионе: публикация дневника вице-адмирала и наместника на Дальнем Востоке Евгения Ивановича Алексеева (1843–1917 гг.)","authors":"И.В. Бурмистров","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0064","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY:Ivan Burmistrov has prepared and annotated extracts for publication from journals kept by the Russian navy officer Evgeny Ivanovich Alekseev (1843–1917). After several decades of active sea service, Vice Admiral Alekseev was appointed viceroy of the Russian Far East, and in this capacity he bears his share of responsibility for provoking the infamous Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. The publication covers the period 1881–1898, when Alekseev commanded ships and whole squadrons, primarily in the Pacific, and traveled across the United States. Burmistrov argues that, despite the laconic and businesslike character of the journals, they register the process of \"nationalizing\" the imperial subject and the country, as well as the role of the navy in this process.","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84111481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This book review was to have been written by a different reviewer a year ago. The reviewer eventually decided not to write a review, but never explained the reasons for this. Besides issues of professional ethics, there might be a political reason for such sabotage, at least after February 24, 2022. With the Russian Federation unleashing a genocidal war against Ukraine under the absurd pretext of its denazification, some may see a discussion of the dark pages in Ukraine’s past as facilitating Russian propaganda and undermining the Ukrainian cause in general. If so, it is flawed logic. If anything set post-Soviet Ukraine apart from Russia over the past two decades, it was not the rule of law or the level of corruption but a discussion of Ukrainian society’s complicity in World War II–era genocides – the Holocaust and the so-called Volhynian massacre of Poles. Even if inconsistent and halfhearted, public debates of these traumatic events in Ukraine were matched in Putin’s Russian Federation by a total denial of its own rich genocidal past at the expense of Soviet history’s hysterical glorification. Russia’s denialism went as far as to repudiate responsibility for episodes that were officially recognized as criminal by Soviet officialdom back in 1990, such as the Katyn massacre of Polish prisoners in 1940. Russia’s Memorial Society, the main custodian of historical memory of Soviet terror and its perpetrators, was legally and illegally harassed for years until it was required by the Supreme Court to shut down in 2021 and was officially outlawed in 2022. Systematic retrospective populism – the glorification of the righteous Soviet nation in the past – has evolved into full-scale domestic Nazism, as the Soviet has increasingly become identified with ethnically Russian, and a revival of the Russian-Soviet idealized community has become the ultimate political priority. By contrast, a critical or at least skeptical attitude to Ukrainian nationalism of the 1940s has prevented modern Ukrainian society from embracing organicist nationalism, even in the face of Russia’s creeping aggression since 2014.1 When Russia unleashed open war against Ukraine in Febru-
{"title":"Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust: OUN and UPA's Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941–1944 by John-Paul Himka (review)","authors":"I. Gerasimov","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0076","url":null,"abstract":"This book review was to have been written by a different reviewer a year ago. The reviewer eventually decided not to write a review, but never explained the reasons for this. Besides issues of professional ethics, there might be a political reason for such sabotage, at least after February 24, 2022. With the Russian Federation unleashing a genocidal war against Ukraine under the absurd pretext of its denazification, some may see a discussion of the dark pages in Ukraine’s past as facilitating Russian propaganda and undermining the Ukrainian cause in general. If so, it is flawed logic. If anything set post-Soviet Ukraine apart from Russia over the past two decades, it was not the rule of law or the level of corruption but a discussion of Ukrainian society’s complicity in World War II–era genocides – the Holocaust and the so-called Volhynian massacre of Poles. Even if inconsistent and halfhearted, public debates of these traumatic events in Ukraine were matched in Putin’s Russian Federation by a total denial of its own rich genocidal past at the expense of Soviet history’s hysterical glorification. Russia’s denialism went as far as to repudiate responsibility for episodes that were officially recognized as criminal by Soviet officialdom back in 1990, such as the Katyn massacre of Polish prisoners in 1940. Russia’s Memorial Society, the main custodian of historical memory of Soviet terror and its perpetrators, was legally and illegally harassed for years until it was required by the Supreme Court to shut down in 2021 and was officially outlawed in 2022. Systematic retrospective populism – the glorification of the righteous Soviet nation in the past – has evolved into full-scale domestic Nazism, as the Soviet has increasingly become identified with ethnically Russian, and a revival of the Russian-Soviet idealized community has become the ultimate political priority. By contrast, a critical or at least skeptical attitude to Ukrainian nationalism of the 1940s has prevented modern Ukrainian society from embracing organicist nationalism, even in the face of Russia’s creeping aggression since 2014.1 When Russia unleashed open war against Ukraine in Febru-","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81432356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It is hard to believe that just thirty odd years ago, some scholars thought it pertinent to demand a “freeze” on the study of the Cold War, because there is nothing new to be written about the period.1 The suggestion was that while it might be possible to glean some overlooked facts, occurrences, or data from previously inaccessible archives, these are unlikely to challenge, let alone change, the existing frameworks for explanation and understanding. It seems however that time has proved such assessments premature, if not flawed. Instead of wilting, Cold War scholarship has blossomed into more than a “hundred flowers,” if we are to paraphrase Chairman Mao’s well-known adage. There has been a sustained and growing interest in troubling the bifurcated historical and geopolitical imaginaries of the Cold War by examining complex cultural trends and everyday practices. Rather than the relentless struggle between the homogeneous
{"title":"The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene by Theodora K. Dragostinova (review)","authors":"Emilian Kavalski","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0077","url":null,"abstract":"It is hard to believe that just thirty odd years ago, some scholars thought it pertinent to demand a “freeze” on the study of the Cold War, because there is nothing new to be written about the period.1 The suggestion was that while it might be possible to glean some overlooked facts, occurrences, or data from previously inaccessible archives, these are unlikely to challenge, let alone change, the existing frameworks for explanation and understanding. It seems however that time has proved such assessments premature, if not flawed. Instead of wilting, Cold War scholarship has blossomed into more than a “hundred flowers,” if we are to paraphrase Chairman Mao’s well-known adage. There has been a sustained and growing interest in troubling the bifurcated historical and geopolitical imaginaries of the Cold War by examining complex cultural trends and everyday practices. Rather than the relentless struggle between the homogeneous","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88628840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SUMMARY:This is a contribution to a review forum dedicated to Mark Gamsa's book Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Mark Gamsa responds to the forum participants' comments on various aspects of his double biography of the city and one of its inhabitants: Roger von Budberg, a Russian medical doctor of Baltic German descent, who embraced much of Chinese culture or at least the Chinese way of life.Резюме:Это эссе является частью рецензионного форума, посвященного книге Марка Гамзы "Харбин: кросс-культурная биография" (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Марк Гамза отвечает на комментарии участников форума, касающиеся различных аспектов его книги, которая представляет собою двойную биографию: города и его обитателя, Роджера фон Будберга (Roger von Budberg) – российского врача, балтийского немца, который перенял китайскую культуру или, по крайней мере, образ жизни.
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SUMMARY:The article tells the story of prehistorical archaeology in the Russian Empire and its making of "race," focusing on Russian scholars' selective adaptation of universal knowledge from the "West" to local circumstances. This knowledge and these approaches were permeated with civilizational hierarchies coded by white–black opposition. The article explores applications of this knowledge to Russia's "colorless" imperial society and the political implications of this move. It asserts that prehistoric archaeology was opening a critical space for value-infused differentials on several ideological fronts, among which Arianism, Pan-Slavism, liberal Westernism, and anti-imperial nationalisms all offered domesticated versions of White ness and Blackness that coded competing claims for power, civilizational prestige, and modernity.Резюме:В статье рассказывается об истории доисторической археологии в Российской империи и ее роли в формировании концепции расы в процессе избирательной адаптации российскими учеными универсального "западного" знания к местным реалиям. Это знание и научные подходы были структурированы представлениями о четкой цивилизационной иерархии, кодированной, в частности, через противопоставление белой и черной кожи. В статье исследуются приложение этого подхода к "бесцветному" имперскому обществу России и его политические последствия. Доисторическая археология открывала простор для формулирования ценностно окрашенных противопоставлений на нескольких идеологических фронтах, включая арийскую идеологию и панславизм, либеральное западничество и антиимперский национализм. Все они кодировали свои конкурирующие претензии на власть, цивилизационный престиж и модерность при помощи адаптированных к российским реалиям образов "белых" и "черных".
{"title":"Prehistorical Archaeology, Race Science, and Blackness in Imperial Russia","authors":"L. Mcreynolds","doi":"10.1353/imp.2022.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2022.0062","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY:The article tells the story of prehistorical archaeology in the Russian Empire and its making of \"race,\" focusing on Russian scholars' selective adaptation of universal knowledge from the \"West\" to local circumstances. This knowledge and these approaches were permeated with civilizational hierarchies coded by white–black opposition. The article explores applications of this knowledge to Russia's \"colorless\" imperial society and the political implications of this move. It asserts that prehistoric archaeology was opening a critical space for value-infused differentials on several ideological fronts, among which Arianism, Pan-Slavism, liberal Westernism, and anti-imperial nationalisms all offered domesticated versions of White ness and Blackness that coded competing claims for power, civilizational prestige, and modernity.Резюме:В статье рассказывается об истории доисторической археологии в Российской империи и ее роли в формировании концепции расы в процессе избирательной адаптации российскими учеными универсального \"западного\" знания к местным реалиям. Это знание и научные подходы были структурированы представлениями о четкой цивилизационной иерархии, кодированной, в частности, через противопоставление белой и черной кожи. В статье исследуются приложение этого подхода к \"бесцветному\" имперскому обществу России и его политические последствия. Доисторическая археология открывала простор для формулирования ценностно окрашенных противопоставлений на нескольких идеологических фронтах, включая арийскую идеологию и панславизм, либеральное западничество и антиимперский национализм. Все они кодировали свои конкурирующие претензии на власть, цивилизационный престиж и модерность при помощи адаптированных к российским реалиям образов \"белых\" и \"черных\".","PeriodicalId":45377,"journal":{"name":"Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73366453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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