Imperial Order and Nationalism in Contiguous Empires: A Comparative Perspective Level: Master's CEU Instructor(s): Alexei Miller Brief

course description: The goals of the course are to provide a familiarity with the current research o n patterns of imperial rule, nationalism and identification strategies in imperi al context. We shall seek to develop a comprehensive and critical understanding of the mechanisms of interaction of imperial authorities and various local socia l and political actors about issues of identity, loyalty and nation-building. M uch attention is given to comparative approach (involves contiguous empires and maritime Empires) and to the interaction in the macro system of continental Empi res, including pan-ideologies. The readings are selected to provide representati ve case studies for comparative purposes. Additional information: Each lecture is followed by discussion seminar. The course will help students to place Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in European and global perspecti ves, to develop a comprehensive understanding of the three historical regions (C entral, Eastern, South-Eastern Europe) in a comparative perspective, as well as thorough understanding and critical evaluation of some key concepts and theoreti cal approaches that are developing in historical studies. The proportion of time , devoted to particular areas and periods to a large extent depends on the compo sition of the class. Learning Outcomes: This course aims at: - providing students with knowledge of most important recen t literature on nationalism in imperial context; - developing critical understan ding of key analytical concepts (empire, nationalism, national and non-national identifications, systems of interaction, etc.) and of most important methodologi cal approaches (comparative approach, situational approach, history of transfers and entangled histories perspective) - developing students skills in presentation of their research (using conference format for class presentations) - developing students skills in discussing conflicting methodological approaches In order to achieve these objectives course combines lectures, which introduce factual mater ial and methodological approaches, with seminars. Seminars include discussion of the most important literature, student presentations of case studies (20 min.), and short (10 min.) presentations of position papers, based on analysis of part icular books and articles Assessment : Requirements - class work, presentation(s) and final paper. Assessment: 30% - cl ass work (seminar discussion, questions and comments during the lectures) 40% presentation (s). One presentation (up to 20 min) resembles conference presentat ions. Topics are usually assigned in relation to students MA project or other res earch interests (to be fixed in discussion between a student and the instructor) Not only contents, but also form of presentation are evaluated. Second brief (u p to 10 min.) critical evaluation of 1-2 articles, related to the topic of a par ticular class.Shows the ability to grasp most important theoretical argument and to evaluate it critically. 30% - Final paper usually the revised version of the main presentation. The topic is subject to change based on agreement with the i nstructor. Important is the ability to reflect upon the seminar discussion of th e initial presentation and the ability to incorporate new theoretical and factua l material from the course into the final product. Full description: Lectures 1-2. Conceptual framework. Terminology. Empire, indirect and direct rule; center, core and periphery; colonization and c olony; frontiers borders borderlands. Ethnicity, nationalism, identification, loyalty. Imperial, national and regional historic narratives. How history of Empire is possible? The value and the limits of a comparative approach. Entangled histories. *marks texts, included in the course reader.

Required: *Terry Martin. The Soviet Union as Empire: Salvaging a Dubious Analytical Catego ry [ pdf] *Michael Doyle. Empires. Cornell UP, p.30-47 [ pdf] * Dominic Lieven. Empire. The Russian Empire and its Rivals. London: John Murray , 2000, p.3-25, 445-449. [ pdf] Rogers Brubacker and Fred Cooper. Beyond identity. Theory and Society, 2000, #1, p . 1-47 (see also R.Brubaker Ethnicity without Groups) [ pdf] Alexey Miller and Alfred J. Rieber. Introduction, in A. Miller and Alfred J. Rie ber (eds.) Imperial Rule. Budapest New York, CEU Press, 2004, pp.1-6. [ pdf] *A. Miller. Nationalism and Theorists. CEU History Dep. Yearbook. 1996. P. 207-2 14. [ pdf] A.Miller. Between Local and Inter-Imperial: Russian Imperial History in Search f or Scope and Paradigm. Chapter 1 in Romanov: Empire and Nationalism [ pdf] *A. Miller. The Value and the Limits of A Comparative Approach to the History of Contiguous Empires. [ pdf] Lectures 3-4. Patterns of Imperial Growth. Imperial Rule before Nationalism. Im perial and Local Elites. R: *John LeDonne. Core area and frontier. (conference paper) [ pdf] *Alfred Rieber. Persistent Factors of Russian Foreign Policy: an interpretive es say Donald Quartaet. The Ottoman Empire. 1700-1922. Cambridge Univ. Press. , 2000. p . 89110. *Hans-Peter Hue. Elites and Imperial Elites in the Habsburg Monarchy. (Conferenc e paper.) [ pdf] *Andreas Kappeler. Imperial Core and Elites of the Peripheries in the Habsburg, Romanov and Ottoman Empires. (Conference paper.) [ pdf] *Stephen Velychenko. The Size of the Imperial Russian Bureaucracy and Army in Com parative Perspective, Jahrbcher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, no. 3 (2001) 346-62.[ pdf] Additional reading: John LeDonne. The Russian Empire and the World. N.Y., Oxford . 1997. pp.9-20, 347-362. Lecture 5. The Social Structures of the Empires. Serfdom order. Institutions: Army, Church. Religious Communities. R: *Steven L. Hoch. The Serf Economy, the Peasant Family, and the Social Order. In: Jane Burbank & David Ransel. Imperial Russia 1998. p.199-209. Jerome Blum. Lord and Peasant in Russia. Princeton, 1961. pp.367-442, pp.575-621 . Fikret Adanir. Religious Communities and Ethnic Groups under Imperial Sway: Otto man and Habsburg Lands in Comparison. // Dirk Hoerder et al. (ed.) The Historica l Practice of Diversity. Transcultural Interactions from Early Modern Mediterran ean to the Postcolonial World. New York, London, Berghahn Books, 2003, PP.54-86. [ pdf] Lecture 6. Orientalism and Eastern empires. Two dimensions self-esteem in dealing with their own barbarians and reaction to th e Western alienating discourse. Iver Neumann. Uses of the Other. Chapters The Turk, The Russian Other Khalid A. Russian history and the debate over orientalism // Kritika, Bloomingto n. 2000. New Series - Vol.1, N.4. - p.691-699. [ pdf] Todorova M. Does Russian orientalism have a Russian soul? A contribution to the debate between Nathaniel Knight and Adeeb Khalid // Kritika, Bloomington. 2000. New Series - Vol.1, N.4. - p.717-727. [ pdf ] *Ussama Makdisi. Ottoman Orientalism. American Historical Review, June 2002, p.7 68-773. [ pdf] Selim Deringil, They Live in a State of Nomadism and Savagery: the Late Ottoman Em pire and the Post-Colonial Debate. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2 003, #2, p. 311-342 [ pdf] Additional reading: David Cannadine. Ornamentalism. How the British Saw Their Em

pire. Oxford, Oxford University press, 2001. Andrzej Walicki. The Slavophile Controversy: History of a Conservative Utopia in Nineteenth-Century Russia. Oxford, 1975. pp.394-457 Lecture 7-8. Empires meet nationalism. Official Nationalisms. Nationalisms of Imperial nations. Nationalisms from below e xpansionist and isolationist. Situational analysis: Russian nationalism and competing projects of national hom ogenization (Western borderland, Ostzee provinces, Volga-Ural region). Language and identity. The Macro-System of Contiguous Empires. R: Eugen Weber. Peasants into Frenchmen. Stanford, 1976. pp.IX-XII, 303-338, 485 -496. A.Miller. Between Local and Inter-Imperial: Russian Imperial History in Search f or Scope and Paradigm. Kritika, 2004, #1, p. 5-19. A.Miller. The Empire and the Nation in the Imagination of Russian Nationalism. I n A.Miller, A.Rieber (eds.) Imperial Rule. [ pdf] *A. Miller. Shaping Russian and Ukrainian Identities in the Russian Empire Durin g the 19th Century: some Methodological Remarks. Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteu ropas, 2001,H.2. [ pdf] *A. Miller. The Value and the Limits of A Comparative Approach to the History of Contiguous Empires. [ pdf] *A.Miller. Russifications: an Attempt at Classification. [ pdf] Alexei Miller and Oksana Ostapchuk The Latin and Cyrillic Alphabets in Ukrainian National Discourse and in the Language Policy of Empires. (forthcoming) Fikret Adanr. Imperial Response to Nationalism: The Ottoman Case. In Henry Cavann a (ed.), Governance, Globalization and the European Union. Which Europe for Tomo rrow?, Dublin 2002, pp. 47-66. Kemal Karpat. The politicization of Islam. Reconstructing identity, state, faith , and community in the late Ottoman State. - Oxford, Oxford univ. press, 2001. p . 276-328. John-Paul Himka, The Construction of Nationality in Galician Rus: Icarian Flights in Almost All Directions, in Ronald Grigor Suny and Michael D. Kennedy (eds.), In tellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation (Ann Arbor: The University of Mic higan Press, 2001), 109-169. [ pdf] Ephraim Nimni, Nationalist Multiculturalism in Late Imperial Austria as a Critiqu e of Contemporary Liberalism: The Case of Bauer and Renner, Journal of Political Ideologies (1999), 4(3), 289-314. [ pdf] Philipp Ther. Imperial instead of National History: Positioning Modern German His tory on the Map of European Empires, in A. Miller and Alfred J. Rieber (eds.) Imp erial Rule. Budapest New York, CEU Press, 2004, pp. 47-69 [ pdf] Additional reading: Geraci R. P. Window to the East. National and Imperial ident ities in late Tsarist Russia. - Ithaca; L.: Cornell univ. press, 2001. Dowler W. Classroom and Empire: The politics of schooling Russias eastern nationa lities, 1860-1917. - Toronto, McGill-Queens univ. press, 2001. Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities... p. 67-111. Lecture 9. Meeting challenges of modernity. Mobilized diasporas in modernizing empires. John A. Armstrong, Mobilized and Proletarian Diasporas. The American Political Sci ence Review 70 (1976): 393-408. [ pdf] Juri Slezkine. The Jewish Century ch. 2, 3 *D.Feldman. Was Modernity Good for the Jews? In B. Cheyette and Laura Marcus (ed s.) Modernity, Culture and the Jew. Cambridge, UK, 1998, p. 171-186. [ pdf] Rieber A.J. Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia. Chapel Hill, 1982. p p.415-427 Additional reading: Smuel Eisenstadt, Multiple Modernities in the Era of Globali zation, Daedalus, vol. 129, No.1, Winter 2000. [ pdf] Ilya Vinkovetsky. The Russian-American Company as a Colonial Contractor for the R

ussian Empire, in A. Miller and Alfred J. Rieber (eds.) Imperial Rule p.163-178. *Z.Bauman. Allosemitism: Premodern, Modern, Postmodern. In B. Cheyette and Laura Marcus (eds.) Modernity, Culture and the Jew. Cambridge, UK, 1998, p. 143-156. [ pdf] Hans Rogger, Conclusion and Overview, in John D. Klier and Shlomo Lambroza (eds.), Pogroms : Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History (Cambridge University Press, 1992), 314-371. Lecture 10. Grand Strategies of the Empires. R: D. Lieven. Empire on Europes Periphery: Russian and Western Comparisons. In A. Miller, A.Rieber (eds.) Imperial Rule. [ pdf] Dominic Lieven. Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918. Power, Territory, Identity. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No. 2. (Apr., 1999), p. 165. Ash T. G. Mitteleuropa? Daedalus, Winter 1990, Vol.119, 1 P.1-21. Paul W. Schroeder. Austria, Great Britain and the Crimean War. The Destruction o f the European Concert. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1972, pp. 392-427. [ p df] Additional reading: Dominic Lieven. Empire. The Russian Empire and its Rivals. London: John Murray, 2000, John LeDonne. The Russian Empire and the World. N.Y., Oxford. 1997. Lecture 11-12. The opening of political system in the early XX century. WWI, the collapse of the old regime, revolutions and counter-revolutions. The role of ethn icity and nationalisms. Fikret Adanir and Hilmar Kaiser. Migration, Deportation and Nation-Building: The Case of the Ottoman Empire // Ren Leboutte (ed.) Migrations and Migrants in Hist orical Perspective. Permanencies and Innovations. Florence, P.I.E Peter Lang S.A ., Brussels, 2000, P. 273-292, esp. 279-281. [ pdf] Eric Lohr. Nationalizing the Russian Empire, p. 1-9, 84-94 [ pdf - all 245 pages ] *Alexei Miller. A Testament of the All-Russian Idea: Foreign Ministry Memoranda to the Imperial, Provisional and Bolshevik Governments. In: Seifert M. (ed.) ext ending the borders of Russian History Lecture 13. Making the USSR: the Empire of affirmative action or the communal apart ment? What is left of Empires? R: Max Engman. Consequences of Dissolving an Empire: the Habsburg and Romanov Ca ses. Studia Baltica Stockholmiensia, 13, 1994. P.21-34 [ pdf] Terry Martin. The affirmative Action Empire. Cornell UP, 2001, p.1-27, [ pdf] 37 6-393. [ pdf] *Juri Slezkine. The USSR as a Communal Appartment, or How a Socialist State Prom oted Ethnic Particularism. // Slavic Review, 53, 2 (Summer 1994) pp.414-452. [ p df] Ronald Grigor Sunny, The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, National Identity, an d Theories of Empire in Ronald Grigor Suny and Terry Martin (eds.) A State of Nat ions: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin, (Oxford: Oxford U niversity Press, 2001) Norman Stone et al. The Russians and the Turks: Imperialism and Nationalism in t he Era of Empires. In: A.Miller, A.Rieber (eds.) Imperial Rule. [ pdf - 2nd part ]