Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917 (Imperial Encounters in Russian History)

Defining the Others, “them”, in relation to one’s own reference group, “us”, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities. This volume examines the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the external and internal Others in Russia from the 16 th century Muscovy to the collapse of the Russian empire. Contents Preface Introduction: Images, Otherness, and Images of the Others Part One: Creating Prototypes Section Summary 1. Varieties of Otherness in Ivan IV’s Muscovy: Relativity, Multiplicity, and Ambiguity 2. The Depiction of “Us” and “Them” in the Illuminated Codex of the 1560s–1570s 3. The Image of the Other: The Perception of Tatars by Russian Intellectuals and Officials in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (Chroniclers, Diplomats, Voivodes, and Writers) 4. From Inozemtsy to Inovertsy and Novokreshchenye: Images of Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Russia Part Two: Classifying the “Internal Others” Section Summary 5. From “Sovereign’s Foreigners” to “Our Savages”: Otherness of Siberian Indigenous Peoples in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russia 6. The Russians and the Oirats (Dzungars) in Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Contacts and Images of the “Other” in the Era of Empire Building 7. “In a Menagerie of Nations”: Crimean Others in Travelogues, c. 1800 8. Visually Integrating the Other Within: Imperial Photography and the Image of the Caucasus (1864–1915) 9. Perception of Others within One Ethnic Minority: Jewish Ethnographic Studies in the Late Russian Empire Part Three: The Other in Times of Conflict and Crisis Section Summary 10. The Russian Imagological Bestiary: The Zoomorphic Image of the Enemy (“Other”) at the Turn of the Century, 1890–1905 11. Hungry and Different—“Otherness” in Imperial Famine Relief: 1891–1892 12. “Agitators and Spies”: The Enemy Image of Itinerant Russians in the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1899–1900 13. The Self and the Other: Representations of the Monarchist Foe and Ally in the Satirical Press of the Russian Right (1906–1908) 14. The Construction of the Image of the “Other” in the Discussion of the “Yellow Peril”: Chinese People in Late Imperial Russia 15. “Own” and “Other”: Soldiers, Officers, and the Fatal Zigzags of the Russian Revolution in the Last Year of the Life of General L. G. Kornilov (1870–1918) Contributors Abbreviations Used by the Authors Index "Defining the Others, "them", in relation to one's own reference group, "us", has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities in any given country or region. In the case of Russia, the formulation of these binary definitions - sometimes taking a form of enemy images - can be traced all the way to medieval texts, in which religion represented the dividing line. Further, the ongoing expansion of the empire transferred numerous "external others" into internal minorities. The chapters of this edited volume examine the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the Others in Russia from the 16th century Muscovy to the collapse of the Russian empire"-- Provided by publisher