دانلود کتاب Russian Exceptionalism between East and West: The Ambiguous Empire

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Preface
Contents
List of Tables
1 Introduction
Structure of the Book
References
2 Conceptualising an Empire in Between
Introduction
Empires Between the Objective and Intersubjective
Enter Saïd
Russia’s Hybrid-Exceptionalist Empires
Introducing Hybrid Exceptionalism
Exceptionalism
Hybridity
Hybrid Exceptionalism
A Note on Method
References
3 Hybrid Exceptionalism Under the Romanovs
Introduction
Debating Modernity
Managing Empire, to the East and to the West
Thinking the ‘Empire’ In Between
In-Between Manifest Orientalisms
Thinking the West Away
Russian Art and Empire between Orient and Occident
Imagining the Orient
Picturing Western Borderlands
Conclusion
References
4 The Soviet Union as a Hybrid Civilising Project
Introduction
An Anti-imperialist Empire
Marxism-Leninism and the Question of Nationality
Hierarchy and Soviet Nationalities Policy
Restoring Russia
Socialist Empire as Civilising Mission
A Very Hierarchical Union
Nativisation as Civilising Mission
The Return of Great Russia
The Scientific Way of ‘Emancipation’
Soviet Imaginings of East and West
Conclusion
References
5 Hybrid Exceptionalism in Contemporary Russia
Introduction
Chaos and Flux: Russian Worldviews in the Nineties
Hybrid Exceptionalism Redux
Feigning Liberalism
Constructing Difference
Conclusion
References
6 Looking East, Looking West
Introduction
Russia’s Continuing Orientalist Gaze
Russia’s Western Fears
The Scientific Way of Hierarchy
Art, Hierarchy, and In-Betweenness
Conclusion
References
7 Conclusion: Beyond Empire’s Shadow
Introduction
Russia Between Empire and Reality
Between Continuity and Change
Russia Today
Matching Values and Reality
Emancipation Through Critical Engagement
Conclusion
References
Index