Nationalizing the Russian Empire : The Campaign against Enemy Aliens during World War I / Eric Lohr.
2003
DK34.R9 L64 2003
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Title
Nationalizing the Russian Empire : The Campaign against Enemy Aliens during World War I / Eric Lohr.
Author
Lohr, Eric, author.
ISBN
9780674274877
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2003]
Copyright
©2003
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (256 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674274877 doi
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DK34.R9 L64 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.3/086/91
Summary
In this compelling study of the treatment of "enemy" minorities in the Russian Empire during the First World War, Eric Lohr uncovers a dramatic story of mass deportations, purges, expropriations, and popular violence.A campaign initially aimed at restricting foreign citizens rapidly spun out of control. It swept up Russian subjects of German, Jewish, and Muslim backgrounds and drove roughly a million civilians from one part of the empire to another, resulting in one of the largest cases of forced migration in history to that time. Because foreigners and diaspora minorities were prominent among entrepreneurial and landowning elites, the campaign against them also became an explosive element in class and national tensions on the eve of the 1917 revolutions. During the war, the imperial regime dropped its ambivalence about Russian nationalism and embraced unprecedented and radical policies that "nationalized" the economy, the land, and even the population. The core idea of the campaign--that the country needed to free itself from the domination of foreigners, internal enemies, and the exploitative world economic system--later became a central feature of the Soviet revolutionary model. Based on extensive archival research, much in newly available sources, Nationalizing the Russian Empire is an important contribution to the study of empire and nationalism, the Russian Revolution, and ethnic cleansing.
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Russian Research Center Studies
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Nationalist Challenges, Imperial Dilemmas
2 The Moscow Riots
3 Nationalizing the Commercial and Industrial Economy
4 Nationalizing the Land
5 Forced Migrations
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Archival Sources
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Nationalist Challenges, Imperial Dilemmas
2 The Moscow Riots
3 Nationalizing the Commercial and Industrial Economy
4 Nationalizing the Land
5 Forced Migrations
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Archival Sources
Index