Russian Empire, Orientalism, and Processes of Nation-Building in the Volga Region
Aleksei Miller
3/2003
Published in Russian.
SUMMARY:
Aleksei Miller surveys recent historiography on the Volga-Kama region and places these research trends in the general context of debates about the nature of the Russian empire and “orientalism” in European perspective. The author contends that the history of nation-formation in the region has to be understood in a comparative framework that should include not only a reference to the Western Borderlands, but also the implications of nation-building and pan-movements for adjacent continental empires.