Remarks prepared as commentary to papers presented by Ilya Gerasimov, Charles Steinwedel, and Alexander Kaplunovski at the VII World Congress of the ICCEES, Berlin, July 2005. The texts of these papers can be found at <a href="http://abimperio.net/scgi-bin/aishow.pl?state=portal/outreach/w2005&idlang=1"> Ab Imperio’s website </a> (menu Outreach Projects – Conferences – July 2005).
This article is one result of the research project “Bertha von Suttner – Revisited” (2005-2006), commissioned by the Austrian National Bank Jubiläumsfonds. I would like to thank Ab Imperio’s anonymous reviewer for the stimulating suggestions for revision of an earlier draft.
This paper was first presented at the 37th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Salt Lake City in November 2005. I would like to thank Peter Holquist and Paul du Quenoy (my co-panelists) and the audience for their helpful comments. My thanks also to Brad Woodworth for his invaluable help with my Estonian questions. I am also grateful to the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) and the Taft Research Center of the University of Cincinnati for providing the funding that supported my research. Neither of these agencies is responsible, however, for the views expressed. My essay draws from a book in progress: Baron Ungern’s Empire: Imperialism and Catastrophe in Late Imperial Russia. As a result, much is left out here, especially the Siberian and Mongolian contexts, and many of the findings are preliminary.
I would like to thank friends and colleagues, who read and commented on different versions of this manuscript and provided valuable insights and suggestions: my advisor Seymour Becker, my colleagues at Ab Imperio Ilia Gerasimov, Marina Mogilner, and Alexander Semyonov, Wim Coudenijs, Serguei Oushakine, as well as participants in the AAASS panel David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Charles Halperin, and Marlene Laruelle. I also thank Patrick Seriot for fascinating discussions of Eurasianism: even if we disagree, I recognize the profound impact of his brilliant work on my own thinking. Needless to say, all faults in this article remain my own.
А. С. Зуев. Сибирь: Вехи истории (XVI – XIX вв.) / Учебное пособие... Новосибирск: “ИНФОЛИО-пресс”, 1999. 364 с. ISBN: 5-89590-024-0. А. С. Зуев. Русские и аборигены на крайнем северо-востоке Сибири во второй половине XVII – первой четверти XVIII вв.. Новосибирск: Новосибирский государственный университет, 2002. 330 с. (=Труды Гуманитарного Факультета НГУ, Серия I). ISBN: 5-94356-123-4 (в обл.).
This review essay is published in Russian, see Russian pages of this website.