Russia's entangled embrace : the tsarist empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914
Armenians Russia Armenia Imperialism, Russia, Armenia, Caucasus, Romanov
Cornell University Press
2021
EISBN 1501750135
The Embrace of an Empire, 1801-1813.
Armenians in the Russian Political Imagination, 1814-1829.
Integration and Reorientation : Religious and Economic Challenges in 1830-1856.
Reorientation and Recalibration : The Evolution of Tsarist Policies Toward Armenians Inside and Outside Russia, 1857-1880.
The Shining of the Sabers : Ebbing Symbiosis, Rising Strife, 1881-1895.
Nadir and Normalization, 1896-1914.
'Russia's Entangled Embrace' traces the relationship between the Romanov state and the Armenian diaspora that populated Russia's territorial fringes and navigated the tsarist empire's metropolitan centres. By engaging the ongoing debates about imperial structures that were simultaneously symbiotic and hierarchically ordered, Stephen Badalyan Riegg helps us to understand how, for Armenians and some other subjects, imperial rule represented not hypothetical, clear-cut alternatives but simultaneous, messy realities. He examines why, and how, Russian architects of empire imagined Armenians as being politically desirable. These circumstances included the familiarity of their faith, perceived degree of social, political, or cultural integration, and their actual or potential contributions to the state's varied priorities.
Armenians in the Russian Political Imagination, 1814-1829.
Integration and Reorientation : Religious and Economic Challenges in 1830-1856.
Reorientation and Recalibration : The Evolution of Tsarist Policies Toward Armenians Inside and Outside Russia, 1857-1880.
The Shining of the Sabers : Ebbing Symbiosis, Rising Strife, 1881-1895.
Nadir and Normalization, 1896-1914.
'Russia's Entangled Embrace' traces the relationship between the Romanov state and the Armenian diaspora that populated Russia's territorial fringes and navigated the tsarist empire's metropolitan centres. By engaging the ongoing debates about imperial structures that were simultaneously symbiotic and hierarchically ordered, Stephen Badalyan Riegg helps us to understand how, for Armenians and some other subjects, imperial rule represented not hypothetical, clear-cut alternatives but simultaneous, messy realities. He examines why, and how, Russian architects of empire imagined Armenians as being politically desirable. These circumstances included the familiarity of their faith, perceived degree of social, political, or cultural integration, and their actual or potential contributions to the state's varied priorities.
