The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) - Hardcover

Campbell, Elena I.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253014468 ISBN 13: 9780253014467

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2015

Synopsis

From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested issue among educated Russians both inside and outside the government. As formulated in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Muslim Question comprised a complex set of ideas and concerns that centered on the problems of reimagining and governing the tremendously diverse Russian empire in the face of the challenges presented by the modernizing world. Basing her analysis on extensive research in archival and primary sources, Elena I. Campbell reconstructs the issues, debates, and personalities that shaped the development of Russian policies toward the empire's Muslims and the impact of the Muslim Question on the modernizing path that Russia would follow.

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Review:

I was struck in reading Campbell's work how much Russia's 'Muslim Question' remains a pressing contemporary issue. In addition to being a major contribution to the history of nationality, religious identity, and governance in late imperial Russia, Campbell's book, by implication, offers a better understanding of the analogous issues in the contemporary world. Author: William G. Rosenberg Source: co-author (with Francis X. Blouin, Jr.) of Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and

From the Author:

Elena I. Campbell is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0253014468
• ISBN 13: 9780253014467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320