Asiatic Russia: Imperial Power in Regional and International Contexts

Edited by UYAMA Tomohiko

October 2011
Routledge
ISBN 978-0-415-61537-2
￡80.00 / xv + 296 pp.

(The chapters in this book originated from the Slavic Research Center 2007 Winter International Symposium, December 5–7, 2007)

CONTENTS

Contributors		ix
Preface		xii
Maps		xiv

Introduction: Asiatic Russia as a space for asymmetric interaction

Uyama Tomohiko

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Part I

Russia’s eastern expansion: its “mission” and the Tatars’ intermediary role		11
1 The Russian Empire’s civilizing mission in the eighteenth century: A comparative perspective	Ricarda Vulpius	13
2 Tatarskaia Kargala in Russia’s eastern policies	Hamamoto Mami	32
3 The Russian Empire and the intermediary role of Tatars in Kazakhstan: the politics of cooperation and rejection	Gulmira Sultangalieva	52

Part II

Taming space and people: institutions and demography		81
4 Intra-bureaucratic debate on the institution of Russian governors-general in the mid-nineteenth century	Matsuzato Kimitaka	83
5 Colonization and “Russification” in the imperial geography of Asiatic Russia: from the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries	Anatolii Remnev	102
6 Empire and demography in Turkestan: numbers and the politics of counting	Sergei Abashin	129

Part III

Russian power projected beyond its borders		151
7 Russo-Chinese trade through Central Asia: regulations and reality	Noda Jin	153
8 Muslim networks, imperial power, and the local politics of Qajar Iran	Robert D. Crews	174
9 Sunni-Shi‘i relations in the Russian protectorate of Bukhara, as perceived by the local ‘ulama	Kimura Satoru	189
10 The open and secret diplomacy of Tsarist and Soviet Russia in Tibet: the role of Agvan Dorzhiev (1912–1925)	Nikolay Tsyrempilov	216

Part IV

Asiatic Russia as a space for national movements		235
11 Muslim political activity in Russian Turkestan, 1905–1916	Salavat Iskhakov	237
12 The economics of Muslim cultural reform: money, power, and Muslim communities in late imperial Russia	James H. Meyer	252
13 The Alash Orda’s Relations with Siberia, the Urals and Turkestan: the Kazakh national movement and the Russian imperial legacy	Uyama Tomohiko	271

Index

288