Home/ Search/ 2013/ Issue 3 (40)

Issue 3 (40)

ROMANOV’S EMPIRE AND THE PROBLEM OF CONTROL OVER A CULTURALLY HETEROGENEOUS TERRITORY
Year	2013	Number	3(40)
Pages	59-68	Type	scientific article
UDC	94(470)	BBK	63.3(2)
Authors	Lyubichankovskiy Sergey V.	Topic	ROMANOV’S RUSSIA
Summary	The article attempts to investigate how the Romanov dynasty managed maintaining a phenomenal stability during several centuries in such a complex conglomerate of cultures and ethnic groups as the Russian Empire; the author reviews the ideas of contemporary specialists-historians on the mechanisms used by the Romanovs to build and expand their empire; studies the issues relating to the definition of the Russian Empire’s structure and the basic mechanisms of imperial control over the periphery. Within the context of this problem the specifi cs of government organization in the Ural-Kaspian and the Ural-Volga macro-regions is defined. The author noted a growing interest in today’s historical research in the experience of the Romanov Empire in managing control over the culturally heterogeneous territory with a particular focus on the “internal periphery”, its distinguishing features and the specifics of managing it as part of the process of expanding of the “core” of the Empire and creating conditions contributing to a long-tern stability of multicultural societies.
Keywords	Russian Empire, periphery, historiography
References	Barinova Ye. P. Klio (Clio), 2011, № 1, pp. 86–87. (in Russ.). Bekker S. Novaya imperskaya istoriya postsovetskogo prostranstva [New imperial history of postsoviet space]. Kazan: Tsentr issledovaniy natsionalizma i imperii Publ., 2004, pp. 67–80. (in Russ.). Borisov A. A. Vestnik Omskogo universiteta (Bulletin of Omsk University), 2011, № 1, pp. 256–258. (in Russ.). Danilevskiy K. V., Rudnitskiy Ye. V. Uralo-Kaspiyskiy kray [Ural-Caspian edge]. Uralsk, 1927, 92 p. (in Russ.). Evtuhov C. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2012, Vol. 13, № 4, pp. 877–887. (in English). Kappeler A. Ab Imperio, 2007, № 2, pp. 17–58. (in Russ.). Korelin A. P. Sudba dvukh imperiy. Rossiyskaya i Avstro-Vengerskaya monarkhii ot rastsveta do krusheniya [The fate of two empires. Russian and Austro-Hungarian monarchy from the heyday before the crash]. Moscow: IVI RAN Publ., 2006, pp. 202. (in Russ.). Kryzhanovskiy S. Ye. Posev (Sowing), 1993, № 4, pp. 15–21. (in Russ.). Liven D. Yevropeyskiy opyt i prepodavanie istorii v postsovetskoy Rossii [European experience and teaching of history in post-soviet Russia]. Moscow: IVI RAN Publ., 1999, pp. 54–70. (in Russ.). Lyubichankovskiy S. Federalizm. Teoriya. Praktika. Istoriya (Federalism. Theory. Practice. History), 2007, № 1, pp. 127–140. (in Russ.). Lyubichankovskiy S. Problemy istorii Orenburgskogo kraya XVIII–XX vekov [Problems in the history of the Orenburg region XVIII–XX centuries]. Orenburg: OGPU Publ., 2004, pp. 33–45. (in Russ.). Lyubichankovskiy S. International Conference Proceedings of PSRC. 3rd International Conference on Economics, Humanities, Bio-Technolodgy, January 4–5, 2013. Bali: Planetary Scientifi c Research Centre Publ., 2013, pp. 89–92. (in English). Lyubichankovskiy S. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2012, Vol. 13, № 4, pp. 861–875. (in English). Marasanova V. M. Nauchno-tekhnicheskie vedomosti Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo politekhnicheskogo universiteta. Gumanitarnye i obshchestvennye nauki (Scientifi c and Technical Sheets of the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University. Humanities and Social Sciences), 2010, № 2, pp. 261–264. (in Russ.). Mestnoe upravlenie v poreformennoy Rossii: mekhanizmy vlasti i ikh effektivnost: svodnye materialy zaochnoy diskussii [Local governance in post-reform Russia: the mechanisms of power and effi ciency: the combined materials absentee debate]. Ekaterinburg; Izhevsk: UIIYaL UrO RAN Publ., 2010, 496 p. (in Russ.). Robbins R. Slavic Review, 2012, Vol. 71, № 1, pp. 176–177. (in English). Schattenberg S. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2012, Vol. 13, № 4, pp. 889–902. (in English). Starchenko G. I. Nauchnye vedomosti Belgorodskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta (Scientific Statements of Belgorod State University), 2011, № 1, pp. 174–177. (in Russ.). Voropanov V. A. Sotsium i Vlast (Social Life and Power), 2010, № 4, pp. 120–122. (in Russ.). Zapiska predsedatelya Soveta ministrov B. V. Shtyurmera o neobkhodimosti provedeniya oblastnoy reform [Note by the chairman of the Council of ministers B. V. Stunner on the need for regional reform]. Otechestvennye arkhivy (Russian Archives), 2009, № 1, pp. 95–104. (in Russ.).
Download in PDF