Dissertations / Theses: 'Tsarist Russia; Imperial Russia'

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O'Rourke, Shane. "Warriors and peasants : the contradictions of Cossack culture 1861-1914." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295965.

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Lombardino, Marc Rene. "Music of the imperial ballet in tsarist Russia| The collaboration of the composer and the balletmaster." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1599185.

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Ballet music is an important genre of the canon of Western Classical Music. Composers and choreographers have collaborated on large-scale productions since the sixteenth century, but it was in the late nineteenth century that the art of ballet rose to unprecedented heights with the work of Marius Petipa. Petipa’s collaboration with specialist composers of ballet music had important consequences for the genre going into the twentieth century. As Petipa worked with these specialists, including Ludwig Minkus and Riccardo Drigo, the relationship of dance and music in ballet evolved from a hierarchical relationship (dance over music) to a more equal pairing. This evolution correlates to the changing cultural and political tides of St. Petersburg from the Great Reforms in the 1860s to the October Revolution in 1905. In the 1890s and early 1900s, Petipa collaborated with more established Russian composers, including Peter I. Tchaikovsky, Alexander K. Glazunov, and Arseny N. Koreshchenko. This project considers several ballets by these composers, analyzing various Adagio movements from these works to show how ballet composing was approached first by ballet specialists and subsequently by symphonic composers. These dances are examined within the context of the Grand Ballets they come from as well as from a cultural and historical perspective.

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Ohren, Dana M. "All the Tsar's men minorities and military conscription in Imperial Russia, 1874-1905 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3203866.

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Mardilovich, Galina. "Printmaking in late Imperial Russia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610714.

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Ersoz, Deniz Hasan. "Tourism In Russia: From Tsarist To Post-soviet Period." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614038/index.pdf.

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This thesis analyzes tourism and tourism policy in Russia from Tsarist to post-Soviet period. In this respect the main focus will be on the post-Soviet period. The collapse of the Soviet Union negatively affected tourism and tourism industry in the country. Tourism and tourism industry found itself in an uncertain environment during the transition period. With the establishment of Russian Federal Agency for Tourism in 2004, tourism policies became more effective in the Russian Federation. This study discusses the implementation of tourism policies and efforts of the Russian government for transforming the country into a well known touristic destination of the world.

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Petronis, Vytautas. "Constructing Lithuania : Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Södertörn : Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis ; Södertörns högskola ; Almqvist & Wiksell [distributör], 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7163.

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Mannherz, Julia Carolin. "Popular occultism in late Imperial Russia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614949.

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Gamsa, Mark. "The Russian-Chinese encounter in Harbin, Manchuria, 1898-1932." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273202.

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Smirensky, Alvian N. "Matrimonial legislation in imperial Russia, 1700-1918." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Gulley, Harold Everett. "Railways and the seaborne grain export trade in Tsarist Russia : 1861-1914." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426263.

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Gurushina, Natalia. "British private capital exports to late imperial Russia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339822.

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Gassenschmidt, Christoph. "Jewish liberal politics in Tsarist Russia, 1900-1914 : the modernization of Russian Jewry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356991.

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Howard, Deborah K. "Elite secondary education in late imperial Russia, 1881-1905." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3215201.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2006.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1487. Adviser: Ben Eklof. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed June 18, 2007)."

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Crawford, Alan. "Imperial Russia and the Chinese treaty ports, 1890s-1917." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.650106.

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Between 1896 and 1917 the Russian Empire controlled two small territories, known as concessions, in the Chinese treaty ports of Hankou and Tianjin. Imperialism in the treaty ports was a multinational phenomenon: the Russian concessions existed alongside those of several other empires, simultaneously competing and cooperating as they sought to further their own political and economic aims while maintaining a united front against their unwilling hosts. This thesis explores the origins and development of these little-known outposts of Russian empire, positing that they cannot be understood without reference to contemporary debates about the nature of Russia and its ambiguous intellectual relationship with Europe. Drawing on diplomatic correspondence, administrative records of the concessions and a range of contemporary Russian writing about the treaty ports, the thesis argues that abstract concepts of identity shaped day-to-day policymaking in the concessions by means of a process of constant comparison between Russia and other empires .

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Lychakov, Nikita. "Industrialisation, politics, and banking instability in late Imperial Russia." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2018. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/industrialisation-politics-and-banking-instability-in-late-imperial-russia(246c282e-5f25-404a-a477-2124f9adee07).html.

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This thesis examines industrialisation, politics, banking and social instability in late Imperial Russia. The early-to-mid-1890s were characterised by rapid industrial growth, which was driven by protectionist policies and the state procurement of industrial products. The period 1899-1902 saw a severe financial and industrial crisis. The subsequent period 1903-1905 was marked by widespread labour strikes at industrial enterprises, a war with Japan, and a nation-wide revolution in 1905. My main findings are as follows. First, the national development policies of the 1890s incentivised, although did not compel, commercial banks to finance industrialisation. When industry experienced a slowdown during the financial crisis of 1899-1902, banks sustained devastating losses. This evidence suggests that national development policies had a destabilizing impact on bank performance. Second, in response to the financial crisis, the State Bank, a quasi-central bank of Russia, implemented a multifaceted approach to crisis containment. I find that this multifaceted approach was successful in maintaining price, employment, and financial stability. The evidence also suggests that the State Bank's crisis response was identical to the types of policies employed over a century later by the Federal Reserve during the 2007-09 financial crisis. Third, in response to the financial crisis, the Russian government, along-side privately-owned industry, transferred income and wealth from ordinary workers to industrialists and investors. The evidence also suggests that industry forced the labour force to either work longer hours or more intensively. The distributional effect appears to have contributed to the occurrence of labour strikes, and ultimately to the 1905 revolution.

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Gorshkov, Boris Borisovich. "Factory children child industrial labor in Imperial Russia, 1780-1914 /." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Fall/Dissertations/GORSHKOV_BORIS_40.pdf.

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Bobroff, Ronald Park. "Roads to glory : late imperial Russia and the Turkish straits /." London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb401597552.

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Martin, Brian Joseph. "Beyond Weimar-Russia: The Putin-Medvedev Duumvirate as Imperial Revanchist." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243871475.

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Sauer, Nicholas L. "Disability in Late Imperial Russia: Pathological Metaphors and Medical Orientalism." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1464016404.

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Gregg, Amanda Grace. "Factory Productivity, Firm Organization, and Corporation Reform in Late Imperial Russia." Thesis, Yale University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3663480.

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This dissertation shows how firm organization affected factory performance in the Russian Empire. The first chapter documents the impact of incorporation on firms' production technology and productivity. The second chapter studies the effect of a change in Russia's commercial code in 1901, a reform that improved the rights of small corporate shareholders. In the third chapter, I show how geography and legal forms of organization determined horizontal and vertical integration in the Russian cotton textile industry. The dataset at the heart of the project allows for a rare empirical study of the effect of organization on production at the factory level.

Chapter 1: Factory Productivity and the Concession System of Incorporation in Late Imperial Russia, 1894-1908 In late Imperial Russia, long-term capital was scarce. Incorporation in the Russian Empire required a time-consuming and expensive Imperial concession, yet over four thousand Russian firms incorporated before 1914. I identify the characteristics of firms that chose to incorporate and measure the gains in productivity and growth in machine power enjoyed by corporations using a newly-constructed panel database of manufacturing enterprises I compiled from Imperial Russian factory censuses conducted in 1894, 1900, and 1908. Factories owned by corporations were larger, more productive, and grew faster. Higher productivity factories were more likely to incorporate, and after incorporating, they added machine power and became even more productive. Results from an instrumental variables regression suggest that selection into incorporation was not determined solely by productivity and could be influenced, for example, by connections to government officials. Comparing two kinds of corporations shows that firms sought not just access to stock markets but the corporate form's full set of capital advantages.

Chapter 2: Shareholder Rights and Share Capital: The Effect of the 1901 Russian Corporation Reform, 1890-1905 The Russian 1901 corporation reform increased the rights of small shareholders and removed bankers from corporations' boards of directors. The reform affected one type of corporation (the A-Corporation) more than another type (called the Share Partnership) because one provision of the law created a loophole for Share Partnerships. I thus apply a differences-in-differences approach, studying the differences in corporations of these groups founded before vs. after the reform. The RUSCORP Database (Owen 1990) provides initial charter information from all Russian corporations and from all surviving Russian corporations in 1905. I find that, in response the reform, A-Corporations increased the par value of their shares, reduced their total capitalization, and reduced the number of shares they issued. The reform increased the cost to the firm of having small shareholders; thus, corporations affected by the reform began to resemble the more closely held Share Partnerships.

Chapter 3: Vertical and Horizontal Integration in Imperial Russian Cotton Textiles, 1894-1900 When do firms produce their own inputs instead of purchasing them on the market? In one explanation firms engage in vertical integration to save the cost of transacting on the market, especially when markets are thinner and therefore price risk is greater (Coase 1937). On the other hand, firms that wish to vertically or horizontally integrate may be unable to do if they face financial constraints, because integration requires additional capital. In the third chapter, I find evidence for a thin markets explanation of integration within the Russian cotton textile industry in 1894 and 1900. The 1894 data provide especially rich information on firms' horizontal and vertical integration: the data list a complete description of each factory's internal activities and final products. Both vertically and horizontally integrated factories and firms were larger in terms of number of workers and tended to be located outside of European Russia, where markets were thinner. Vertically integrated firms were older, had more workers and machine power, and produced more revenue per worker given the same machine power. Corporations produced more revenue per worker than non-corporations, even controlling for vertical integration.

Data Appendix: Imperial Russian Manufacturing Establishments Database: 1894, 1900, and 1908 The dissertation includes an appendix in which I describe the formation of a new database of manufacturing establishments in the Russian Empire based on manufacturing censuses conducted in 1894, 1900, and 1908. The database will allow for new studies of the Russian economy and of factory performance in developing economies. This appendix provides a codebook with variable definitions and a description of the censuses' sampling frame. The database matches factories over time, so I include an analysis comparing matched to unmatched factories. Finally, I describe differences in results that use the enterprise-level data and the aggregate data.

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Byford, Andy. "Literary academia in Late Imperial Russia (1870s-1910s) : rituals of self-representation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400746.

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Ryan, Daniel Cavender. "The tsar's faith conversion, religious politics, and peasant protest in imperial Russia's Baltic periphery : 1845-1870s /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1565702641&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Howard, Jeff S. "The effective use of the tsarist wealth by the Soviet government." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2002. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1113102-175520/restricted/HowardJ112502a.pdf.

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Pisiotis, Argyrios K. "Orthodoxy versus autocracy the Orthodox Church and clerical political dissent in late imperial Russia, 1905-1914 /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2000. http://books.google.com/books?id=jS_ZAAAAMAAJ.

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Glicklich, Jacob. "Gendering the other empire transnational imperial perceptions of Russia in the Victorian periodical press /." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1239115485.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Akron, Dept. of History, 2009.
"May, 2009." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 8/2/2009) Advisor, Martin Wainwright; Faculty Reader, Shelley Baranowski; Department Chair, Michael Sheng; Dean of the College, Chand Midha; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

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Glicklich, Jacob A. "Gendering the Other Empire: Transnational Imperial Perceptions of Russia in the Victorian Periodical Press." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1239115485.

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Huang, Ming-Hui. "An ethnographic perspective on the presence of the Holy Fool in Late Imperial Russia." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9731/.

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Crye, Jennifer L. "Shifting Boundaries: Rethinking the nature of religion and religious change among minority peoples in late imperial Russia." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1249395999.

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Meyer, Hans-Caspar. "The discovery, collection and scholarship of classical Greek and Greco-Scythian antiquities in imperial Russia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439815.

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Dixon, Simon Mark. "Church, state and society in late Imperial Russia : the Diocese of St Petersburg, 1880-1914." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387848.

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Sagramoso, Domitilla. "Russia's geopolitical orientation towards the former Soviet states : was Russia able to discard its imperial legacy?" Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1348746/.

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This thesis analyses Russia's military, economic and diplomatic policies towards the newly independent states, particularly towards the members of the CIS, during Boris Yeltsin's first term as President of an independent Russia (December 1991 to July 1996). The objective is to determine whether after the collapse of the Soviet Union the new Russian state tried to restore a sphere of influence or informal empire over the former Soviet republics - as the French did in sub-Saharan Africa after decolonisation - or whether instead Russia's policies reflected a genuine desire to establish normal state-to-state relations with the new states. Chapter one analyses the underlying principles of Russia's foreign policy towards the former Soviet states and examines the debate on Russian foreign policy priorities which took place during the first years of Russia's independence. This section also overviews Russia's policies towards the Russian minorities that inhabit the Baltic states, in order to determine whether Russia attempted to use this diplomatic tool to further its own interests in the area. Chapter two analyses the peculiar structure of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the extent to which Russia used this political framework to achieve hegemony over the former Soviet republics. Chapter three looks at Russia's participation in the wars in Transdniestria, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabagh, and Tajikistan, and Chapter four analyses Russia's energy trade with Ukraine, Belarus, and the Caspian states. The thesis reaches the conclusion that during 1992- mid 1996 Russia's policies only partially reflected an attempt to reassert the country's influence over the republics of the former Soviet Union and create an informal empire in the post-Soviet space. Russia's behaviour was particularly assertive in the military field as well as in its attempts to build a Russian dominated CIS military infrastructure. However, Russia's policies were less aggressive in the economic sphere, except probably as far as energy policy is concerned, and regarding the fate of Russians living beyond the new borders. More often than not, though, Russia's policies followed an ambivalent and incoherent pattern, a result of the weak and fragmented character of the Russian state.

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McDowell, Daragh Antony. "The relationship between Russia and Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan from 2000-10 : a post-Imperial perspective." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3ed2bd54-936b-48d2-b8e4-83e3490db3da.

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This study aims to account for the high degree of influence and intensity displayed in bi-lateral relations between Russia and the other post-Soviet states - specifically Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (BUK.) It seeks to do so by employing an analytical framework based around the concept of 'post-Imperialism,' arguing that persistent legacies of the imperial past have both ensured a high degree of intensity in bilateral relationships as well as providing pathways of influence over certain policy areas - primarily for Russia, but in some instances for BUK as well. It also seeks to examine imperial legacy issues as distinct 'types' - from physical economic and military infrastructure, to cross-border constellations of elite personnel to the normative and cognitive inheritances of imperialism amongst both the elite and the population at large. It concludes that Russia has been able to mobilise and employ power resources not available to alternative actors in order to 'punch above its weight' when competing with other powers for influence in the post-Soviet space, and preserve certain Soviet era patterns of relations. It is not the focus of this study, but it is to be hoped that the framework will prove useful for researchers in other former imperial polities in future.

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Volkov, Vadim. "The forms of public life : the public sphere and the concept of society in Imperial Russia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273035.

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Beer, Daniel. "'The hygiene of souls' : languages of illness and contagion in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272137.

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De, Simone Peter Thomas. "An Old Believer “Holy Moscow” in Imperial Russia: Community and Identity in the History of the Rogozhskoe Cemetery Old Believers, 1771 - 1917." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343624813.

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McGaughey, Aaron. "The Irkutsk cultural project : images of peasants, workers & natives in late imperial Irkutsk province, c.1870-1905." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28435/.

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This thesis explores depictions of established Russian-Siberian peasants, settlers from European Russia, non-agricultural workers, indigenous Buriats and Jews in Irkutsk province during the late imperial period. In particular, it focuses on characterisations of these groups that were created by the Irkutsk 'cultural class' (kul'turnogo klassa) in the late imperial period. The sources it uses are print media such as journals and newspapers produced in or associated with Irkutsk to create a 'microhistorical' study. It is structured around categories of analysis that were used at the time in scientific and literary treatments of lower class peoples, such as social mores, cultural activity, economic function, physiognomy and sexuality. It also studies how these images informed the development of a transformationist culture of government in rural, urban and colonial environments. Using theories of imperial networks and cultural projects borrowed from human and cultural geography and adapting them to an anthropocentric study of Russian colonialism, these debates are situated within the wider context of pan-European, inter-imperial frames of reference. The portrayals of population groups in both domestic and colonial settings that lay within these frameworks rested on common core signs and assumptions found across other pre-war European empires, which made both the frameworks and the images highly portable. This anthropocentric comparative is used to "bring the empire back in", both in recognising the imperial frames of reference within which its culture played out, and also as a means of furthering historiographical analyses that argue against Russian exceptionalism.

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Lee, William Cary. "Grand ducal role and identity as a reflection on the interaction of state and dynasty in imperial Russia." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.689604.

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This study seeks to illuminate the historical significance of non-ruling male Romanovs within the life of the Russian Empire. Crucial to this work are the issues of state-centred versus tsar-centred ideology and the evolution of the service ethos. Thus we begin with a brief overview of seventeenth-century Muscovy, the reign of Peter I, and the post-Petrine eighteenth-century. The 'thread' of Petrine heritage, as interpreted by successive rulers and their servitors, runs through every chapter, sometimes obliquely, sometimes to the fore. Our examination of the grand dukes themselves is divided between the objective issue of role, and the subjective one of identity. With regard to the former, it is our hope to present a more thorough picture of the range and nature of grand ducal duties, honours, appointments, etc., than has hitherto been available in a single work. With regard to the latter, it is here that we seek to identify patterns of behaviour, the power dynamics within the imperial family, and the grand dukes' position in relation to the public at large, service colleagues, and disaffected portions of society. Important questions emerge concerning the consequences of grand ducal independence and/or non-comformity, the way behaviour was perceived and represented (e.g., as patriotic, Petrine, treasonous, etc.), the effects of modernization and family growth (upon both role and identity), and grand ducal response to conflict between state and crown. Our study focuses upon the nineteenth-century, encompassing the maturation of the first generation of adult grand dukes, the emergence of several junior branches of the imperial family, the evolution of the service establishment into a more modern, state-centred entity, and the origins of both revolution and reaction. Inevitably, certain individuals demand more attention than others. In this instance, grand dukes Konstantin Pavlovich and Konstantin Nikolaevich -- men who have already been written about at some length -- emerge as figures of particular note, but only insofar as they reveal patterns of behaviour with enduring relevance to our central theme, that of evolving relations between state and dynasty, and grand ducal allegiance to both entities. We conclude with a brief overview of relevant developments in the twentieth century.

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Crols, Dirk. "From Tsarist empire to League of Nations and from USSR to EU : two eras in the construction of Baltic state sovereignty." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2453/.

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This thesis examines how the three Baltic countries constructed their internal and external sovereign statehood in the interwar period and the post Cold War era. Twice in one century, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were confronted with strongly divided multiethnic societies, requiring a bold and wide-ranging ethnics policy. In 1918 all three Baltic countries promised their minorities cultural autonomy. Whereas Estonian and Latvian politicians were deeply influenced by the theories of Karl Renner and Otto Bauer, the Lithuanians fell back on the historic Jewish self-government in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Many politicians were convinced that the principle of equality of nationalities was one of the cornerstones of the new international order, embodied by the League of Nations. The minority protection system of the League was, however, not established to serve humanitarian aims. It only sought to ensure international peace. This lack of a general minority protection system was one of many discussion points in the negotiations of the Estonian and Latvian minority declarations. Although Lithuania signed a much more detailed minority declaration, its internal political situation rapidly deteriorated. Estonia, on the other hand, established full cultural autonomy with corporations of public law. Although a wide-ranging school autonomy was already established in 1919, Latvia never established cultural self-government. The Second World War and the subsequent Soviet occupation led to the replacement of the small historically rooted minority groups by large groups of Russian-speaking settlers. The restoration in 1991 of the pre 1940 political community meant that these groups were deprived of political rights. In trying to cope with this situation, Estonia and Latvia focused much more on linguistic integration than on collective rights. Early attempts to pursue a decolonisation policy, as proposed by some leading Estonian and Latvian policymakers, were blocked by the ‘official Europe’ which followed a policy analogous to the League of Nations.

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Coker, Adam Nathaniel. "French influences in Russia, 1780s to 1820s : the origins of permanent cultural transfer." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19108.

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This dissertation defines aspects of Russian culture which bear the marks of French influence and explores the historical origins of that influence. While it is generally acknowledged that Russia’s culture has been influenced by France, no systematic history of the origins of this influence has been written. Previous research has dealt only superficially with the topic, focusing almost exclusively on the Francophile preferences of society’s elite. The present study examines Russian society more broadly and explores those elements of French cultural influence still relevant today through an historical analysis of the Russian language. French loanwords found in dictionaries from the time of Peter the Great to the present are analyzed chronologically and topically, yielding the conclusion that the most significant period of long-lasting French influence was the turn of the nineteenth century and was primarily cultural in nature—including the areas of fashion, cuisine, the arts, interior design and etiquette—but was also in areas related to technology and official administration. Following this lexical analysis, other primary sources—archival documents, military memoirs, and periodical publications from the resultant period—are searched for influences in these areas, especially during the period’s two major Franco-Russian events: the wave of immigration to Russia following the French Revolution and Russia’s war with Napoleon. The former facilitated deep cultural enrichment as native Frenchmen and French women, engaged in various occupations, acted as cultural mentors to the Russian nobility. The latter facilitated broad cultural immersion as tens of thousands of Russian troops—noble and common alike—marched into France and experienced French culture firsthand. This dissertation concludes that both of these explosive events, though by no means the beginning of French influence, were unique in the depth and permanence of their mark upon Russia’s culture.

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Marsden, Thomas. "The crisis of religious toleration in mid nineteenth-century Imperial Russia : the state and the old believers, 1842-55." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550517.

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The Old Believers were the largest group of Orthodox dissenters in Russia. In 1853, the government introduced a new system of measures aiming at their eradication. These marked the highest point of religious persecution during the final century-and-a-half of Imperial Russia. This thesis explains what lay behind these extreme policies, examines how they were implemented and the reasons behind their abandonment in 1855. Rather than seeing the system as the result of the autocratic reaction of these years, it argues that it derived from wider processes of modernisation in the political, intellectual and social spheres. The first part of the thesis (1842-52) shows how forces of secularisation and rationalisation led to new pressures to delineate the religious and civil spheres. This was complicated by developments which challenged the rationale behind religious toleration: the foundation of an Old Believer hierarchy abroad; the discovery of the beguny, a radical branch of Old Belief, and statistical revelations about the spread of dissent. Meanwhile, attempts to create a more expert officialdom brought progressive intellectual influences into government. Their concern for national unity gave Old Belief a new political significance. The second part of the thesis (1853-5) examines the implementation of the system. It created a sense of political emergency for extraordinary repressive measures but was the realisation of progressive impulses: the desire to create a more effective state administration and to build a national unity. It transformed the basis of religious politics from concerns about public order and spiritual well-being to ideas about protecting state integrity and the popular spirit. Finally it confronted a modem problem. Old Belief was associated with emerging capitalist forces. The system focussed on dissenting industrialists and merchants, this reveals that the state's religious policy was bound up with attempts to control social development.

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Morley, R. A. L. "Performing femininity in an age of change : representations of woman as performer in the cinema of late Imperial Russia." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1306768/.

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In the cinema of late Imperial Russia the female performer is a ubiquitous figure. This is a study of the ways in which Russian directors exploited this archetype during the period 1908-1918, a decade of social, political and artistic upheaval. By subjecting key films featuring this persona to detailed analysis, this thesis demonstrates that early Russian filmmakers used the performer archetype to examine the complex ways in which conceptions of femininity and female gender roles were evolving in the period and to chart the emergence of the so-called New Woman. It also shows how some directors used this figure to explore the broader, more timeless question of what it means to be, or to become, a woman. In exploring these thematic concerns, the thesis considers the narratives in which the female performer is placed, but focuses especially on the ways in which she is represented visually. It therefore also demonstrates that these filmmakers, artists working in a new medium, centred their explorations of the expressive potential of cinematic technology on the female performer and harnessed their search for a specifically cinematic language to their representations of this figure. The study also considers how the filmmakers’ grasp of their new medium and their representations of the female performer developed during the period under consideration. This era of filmmaking has been the subject of renewed critical attention since the late 1980s, but most commentators have approached the films made during this period as socio-cultural documents. Less attention has been paid to the technical and aesthetic elements of the early Russian film style. In developing the new approaches outlined above, this study therefore advances our understanding of both the central thematic concerns and the defining aesthetic values of a crucial period in the cinematic and cultural history of Russia.

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Krafcik, Annika K. "Teaching the Narod to Listen: Nadezhda Briusova and Mass Music Education in Revolutionary Russia." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1591367779053198.

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Volkov, Denis Vladimirovich. "Oriental studies and foreign policy : Russian/Soviet 'Iranology' and Russo-Iranian relations in late Imperial Russia and the early USSR." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/oriental-studies-and-foreign-policy-russiansoviet-iranology-and-russoiranian-relations-in-late-imperial-russia-and-the-early-ussr(8e28977b-999b-419c-8721-b20f22e9b76a).html.

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Russia and Iran have been subject to mutual influence since the reign of Shah Abbas I (1588-1629). For most of the time this relationship was not one of equals: since the early nineteenth century and lasting at least until 1946, Russia and then the USSR, in strong competition with Britain, had been gradually, and for the most part steadily, increasing its political, cultural and economic influence within Iran up to very high levels. Nevertheless, the history of Russian/Soviet-Iranian relations still remains understudied, particularly in English-language scholarship. One of the main reasons for this gap must be sought in the hampered access of Western researchers to Russian archives during the Soviet time, which made them draw on Russian-language literature, traditionally pre-occupied with the history of social movements, and with the mechanical retelling of political and economic processes. Thus the cultural and political ties of the two countries on institutional and individual levels (especially during the period surrounding 1917), the influence of Russia, and then of the USSR, on Iran and vice versa, in political, economic and cultural spheres through the activities of individuals, as well as the methods and tools used by the “Big Northern neighbour” during the execution of its foreign policy towards Iran did not receive proper attention, and thus lack detailed analysis. This research addresses the lack of detailed analysis of the power/knowledge nexus in relation to Russia’s Persian/Iranian Studies – the largest and most influential sub-domain within Russia’s Oriental Studies during the late Imperial and the early Soviet periods. The specific focus of this study is the involvement of Russian ‘civilian’ (academic) and ‘practical’ (military officers, diplomats, and missionaries) Persian Studies scholarship in Russian foreign policy towards Persia/Iran from the end of the nineteenth century up to 1941 – a period witnessing some of the most crucial events in the history of both countries. It is during this period that Persia/Iran was the pivot of Russia’s Eastern foreign policy but at the same time almost every significant development inside Russia as well as in her Western policies also had an immediate impact on this country – the state of affairs that ultimately culminated in the second Soviet invasion of Iran in 1941. My thesis is based on extensive research in eleven important political, military and academic archives of Russia and Georgia, which allowed me to consult a significant amount of hitherto unpublished, often still unprocessed and only recently declassified, primary sources. While engaging with notions such as Orientalism, my analysis aims at transcending Edward Said’s concept of a mere complicity of knowledge with imperial power. My theoretical approach builds on Michel Foucault’s conceptualisation of the interplay of power/knowledge relations, his notion of discourse, and his writings on the role of the intellectual. While demonstrating the full applicability of the Foucauldian model to the Russian case through the study of the power/knowledge nexus in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia’s Persian Studies, or Iranology, I focus on the activities of scholars and experts within their own professional domains and analyse what motivated them and how their own views, beliefs and intentions correlated with their work, how their activities were influenced by the hegemonic discourses within Russian society. I analyse the interaction of these intellectuals with state structures and their participation in the process of shaping and conducting foreign policy towards Iran, both as part of the Russian scholarly community as a whole and as individuals on the personal level. For the first time my work explores at such level of detail the specific institutional practices of Russia’s Oriental Studies, including the organisation of scholarly intelligence networks, the taking advantage of state power for the promotion of institutional interests, the profound engagement with Russia’s domestic and foreign policy discourses of the time, etc. In addition, the thesis presents a detailed assessment of the organisation of Iranology as a leading sub-domain within the broader scholarly field of Oriental Studies in the period from the end of the nineteenth century to 1941 and analyses the principles and mechanisms of its involvement in Russia’s foreign policy towards Persia/Iran.

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Hetherington, Philippa Lesley. "Victims of the Social Temperament: Prostitution, Migration and the Traffic in Women from Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, 1885-1935." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11677.

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The early twentieth century was the apogee of what historians have come to call a `white slavery' panic, a period in which long term anxieties about the social dangers and moral ambiguities of sex work metamorphosed into an intense philanthropic, public and state focus on forced migration for the purposes of prostitution. This dissertation investigates the origins of `the traffic in women' as a social problem in imperial Russian and Soviet law and society, connecting it to emergent regimes of transnational biopolitics at the fin-de-siècle and through the interwar years. This period was one in which state and social understandings of the subject's freedom, to move across borders or to consent to sex, were being reconceptualized. I argue that the traffic in women, as a legal category and cultural discourse, was key to this process of reconceptualization, as it became a heuristic for making sense of the entanglement of legality, clandestinity, consent and coercion operational in cross border migration, particularly that which involved sex work, in an age of rapid globalization. Consequently, this dissertation helps us to understand how certain conceptions of gendered and sexualized bodies have become central to questions of state security and sovereignty.
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Collins-Breyfogle, Kristin L. "Negotiating Imperial Spaces: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence in the Nineteenth-century Caucasus." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313523207.

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Yilmaz, S. Harun. "Construction of national identities in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine in Soviet historiography (1936-1953)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5694552d-67e7-4d03-8011-cb01b1c8caa8.

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This dissertation aims to explain how Soviet national historiographies were constructed in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan, in 1936-1953 and what the political and ideological reasons were behind the way they were written. The dissertation aims to contribute to current scholarship on Soviet nationality policies; on Stalinist nation-building projects; and to the debate on whether the Soviet period was a project of developmentalist modernization or not. This dissertation aims to examine the process of national history writing in three republics from the local point of view, by using the local archival sources. For this research, archival materials that have been overlooked by scholars up to this point from the archives of the communist parties, academy of sciences, and central state archives in Kiev, Ukraine, Baku, Azerbaijan, and Almaty, Kazakhstan have been collected. The timeline starts with Zhdanov’s commission in 1936, which summoned historians and ideologues of the Communist Party in Moscow to write an all-Union history because a parallel campaign of writing national histories had been initialized by the local communist parties. The first two chapters cover the pre-war (1936-1941) period, when national histories were written after the demise of Pokrovskiian historiography. Although there was one ideology, there were different preferences in solving the problem of ethnogenesis, defining national heroes, and also different preferences among the sections of the past that national histories emphasized. The third chapter explains the construction of national histories during the war period (1941-1945). The chapter also presents how national histories were used for wartime propaganda. Finally, the last chapter is about the post-war discussions and the shift of emphasis from ‘national’ to ‘class’ that occurred in the non-Russian national narratives in the Zhdanovshchina period. While there was an ‘imperial design’ for the necessities of managing a multi-national state, the Soviet Union also appears as a modernization project for all three cases by constructing national narratives. Though non-Russian Soviet historiographies produced contradictory narratives in different decades, they also homogenized, codified and nationalized the narrative of the past. Regional, dynastic, religious, tribal figures and events incorporated into grandiose national narratives. Nations were primordialized and their national identities armed with spatial and temporal indigenousness within the borders of their national republics. Modern national identities of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gained from this homogenization and codification by the Soviet regime. Although modernism is not only about construction of national narratives, the latter points out the developmental and modernizing character of the Soviet period.

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Sequeira, João Pedro Teixeira Romão. "Nacionalismo e conflitos étnicos no Cáucaso : subversão e colapso do estado na Transcaucásia Czarista e Soviética (1830-1991)." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Politicas, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/7981.

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Esta dissertação considera as questões fundamentais suscitadas pelo nacionalismo e pelos problemas étnicos na Transcaucásia Czarista e Soviética entre 1830 e 1991, que em última análise poderão ter fomentado a queda do regime soviético nesta região. Procede - se inicialmente a uma análise histórica do Cáucaso até à sua anexação total pelas tropas russas no século XVIII com o intuito de procurar a origem dos conflitos étnicos existentes nesta reg ião um dia apelidada como Jabal al - sun , as montanhas das línguas. Posteriormente a dissertação aborda a criação e russificação do cáucaso czarista que antecede a sovietização da mesma região que também é analisada numa perspectiva do estudo da relação entre as políticas operadas pelos soviétic os na região e o desencadear de sentimentos nacionalistas que conduziram à emancipação dos povos não - russos cujo ímpeto poderá ter sido talvez maior do que qualquer estratégia de subversão deliberada ao regime soviético. Por último o texto centra - se no bin ómio existente entre a crise do comunismo e o ressurgir do nacionalismo cujos conceitos acresce m do quadro das já turbulentas relações existentes entre eles, pondo em causa a argumentação da nomenklatura soviética que afirmava a erradicação dos conflitos e ntre as muitas nacionalidades da URSS que se prova terem sido apenas silenciadas durante 70 anos à custa do uso da força tendo posteriormente reemergido à custa da redução das políticas de pressão operada durante a Perestroika, tendo um papel preponderante na formação dos movimentos populares nacionalistas e independentistas emergentes.
This thesis seeks to address various fundamental questions raised by nationalistic and ethnical issues in the Tsarist and Soviet Tr anscaucasia between 1830 and 1991 that could have a decisive impact in the fall of the Soviet regime in this region. The text provides a historical analysis of the Caucasus region until the Russian conquest in the XVIII century, aiming to explore the origins of the ethnic conflicts in this region that used to be called jabal al - sun , the mountain of languages. Primarily t he thesis approaches the Tsarist state - building of the Caucasus that precedes the S oviet state building in the same region that is subsequently studied focusing on the relation among the S ov iet politics in this region and the triggering of the sense of nationalism that may have empowered the emancipation of the non - Russian peoples whose urges maybe have outstanded any other deliberated subversion strategy against the Soviet regime. The last s ection explores the binomial relation among the crisis of the com m unism and the re surgence of the nationalism whose concepts emerge in the frame of the turbulent relations between them, jeopardizing the S oviet nomenklatura’s reasoning of the ethnical confl ict’s elimination. That pr oves that those conflicts were not but silenced d uring 70 years by the usage of S oviet rep ression force since they sudden ly reemerge as soon as those repression measures were slightly slackened during the perestroika period, all c laiming an import ant role in arising the popular nationalism and independence movements.

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Osipova, Zinaida. "Engineering a Soviet Life: Gustav Trinkler's Bourgeois Revolution." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1588365551985983.

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Siddiqi, Ahmad Mujtaba. "From bilateralism to Cold War conflict : Pakistan's engagement with state and non-state actors on its Afghan frontier, 1947-1989." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e904bd42-76e9-4c73-8414-dbd7049eb30f.

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The purpose of this thesis is to assess Pakistan’s relationship with Afghanistan before and after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. I argue that the nature of the relationship was transformed by the region becoming the centre of Cold War conflict, and show how Pakistan’s role affected the development of the mujahidin insurgency against Soviet occupation. My inquiry begins by assessing the historical determinants of the relationship, arising from the colonial legacy and local interpretations of the contested spheres of legitimacy proffered by state, tribe and Islam. I then map the trajectory of the relationship from Pakistan’s independence in 1947, showing how the retreat of great power rivalry following British withdrawal from the subcontinent allowed for the framing of the relationship in primarily bilateral terms. The ascendance of bilateral factors opened greater possibilities for accommodation than had previously existed, though the relationship struggled to free itself of inherited colonial disputes, represented by the Pashtunistan issue. The most promising attempt to resolve the dispute came to an end with the communist coup and subsequent Soviet invasion, which subsumed bilateral concerns under the framework of Cold War confrontation. Viewing the invasion as a major threat, Pakistan pursued negotiations for Soviet withdrawal, aligned itself with the US and gave clandestine support to the mujahidin insurgency. External support enhanced mujahidin military viability while exacerbating weaknesses in political organization and ideology. Soviet withdrawal in 1989 left an unresolved conflict. Faced with state collapse and turmoil across the border, heightened security concerns following loss of US support, and intensified links among non-state actors on both sides of the frontier, the Pakistan government drew on its recently gained experience of working through non-state actors to attempt to maintain its influence in Afghanistan. There would be no return to the relatively stable state-state ties prevailing before 1979.

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Stokratskaya, Lidia. "Lorenz von Pansner (1777–1851): Sein Wirken als Mineraloge in Russland im Zeitraum von 1800 bis 1836, seine wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten und seine Briefkorrespondenzen." Doctoral thesis, Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola", 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa-223512.

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Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden der Lebenslauf, die Reisetätigkeit, der wissenschaftliche und berufliche Werdegang Lorenz von Pansners sowie seine Bedeutung für den Aufbau der Mineralogie in Russland im 19. Jahrhundert erschlossen und analysiert. Es wurde auch seine Rolle bei der Gründung der Russischen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft analysiert. Die Grundlage dafür bildeten 57 bisher nicht bekannte Briefe von Pansner und seine wissenschaftlichen Publikationen. Verzeichnisse von in den Briefen auftretenden Personen-, Orts-, Mineral- und Gesteinsnamen sowie ein Stichwortverzeichnis sollen die Erschließung der Briefe ermöglichen, wie eine chronologisch-thematische Übersicht über den Textkorpus in Form von Konspekten und eine Liste von Kommentaren und Erläuterungen. Es wurde auch die Einordnung Pansners in die Reihe anderer multidisziplinärer Wissenschaftler des 19. Jahrhunderts sowie in die wirtschaftlichen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche in der Zeit zwischen den Napoleonischen Kriegen und der Deutschen Revolution unternommen.

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