Orientalism and Empire. North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917

137 Russification and the Return of Conquest “native” guide.^68 Lermontov was a historical icon and guide to later writers, but ...

138 Orientalism and Empire admit the possibility of primarily allowing the Russian element [to immigrate]?”^74 At his initiative ...

139 Russification and the Return of Conquest 31March 1897 for Chernomorsk province and 15 April for the rest of the Caucasus, th ...

140 Orientalism and Empire conquest. Butyrkin and Bereznikov drew new kinds of borders, but within the empire. Such distinctions ...

141 Russification and the Return of Conquest mountain communities carried on an active trade on the Black Sea. Russian officials ...

142 Orientalism and Empire Russian settlers in the early twentieth century were suspect not only as models of high culture and e ...

143 Russification and the Return of Conquest moral wildness [odichanie] and exposed to the harmful influence of those of other f ...

144 Orientalism and Empire squalid [ubogii] Christian church.”^115 They could no longer bear, the Russians of Vedeno pleaded, th ...

Conclusion: Empire and Nativism in the Russian Caucasus And indeed, were not [the interests of Russia and Georgia] one and the s ...

146 Orientalism and Empire study has explored a series of related stories about the identity of the mountain peoples and the pur ...

147 Conclusion Russian-language newspaper such as Kavkaz and its obschestvo of readers sometimes directly appealed to a Georgian ...

148 Orientalism and Empire Georgia’s relationship to Islam and the East was an outgrowth of its relationship to the idea of a Eu ...

149 Conclusion borderland perceptions of the historic clash between Christianity and Islam were the most important context that ...

150 Orientalism and Empire development of the mountain peoples. The special courts estab- lished by the colonial regime in the m ...

151 Conclusion “God Save the Tsar.”^20 Russian readers lost interest in criticism of the militaristic imperial conquest and inst ...

152 Orientalism and Empire St Mesrob Mashtots in the fifth century. Greek (Byzantine) missionar- ies in the early centuries afte ...

153 Conclusion traditions in Saratov province might transform “savages” from Dagestan into peaceful and productive subjects of t ...

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Afterword: Visualizing the Multi-ethnic Community in the Soviet Union We must write our own literature and show our faces [to th ...

156 Orientalism and Empire Cyrillicized alphabets, built schools to replace the Muslim medresses and mektebs, and attempted to f ...