Книга "Внутренняя колонизация. Имперский опыт России" Александра Эткинда предлагает радикально новое толкование культурной истории России. Автор следит за тем, как Российская империя завоевывала зарубежные территории и приручала свои собственные земли, колонизируя многие народы, включая русских. Эта концепция колонизации, одновременно внутренней и внешней, колонизации своих собственных людей и других народов, имеет важное значение для исследователей империй, колониализма и глобализации. Начиная с меховой торговли, которая определила огромную территорию России, и заканчивая ее крахом в 1917 году, Эткинд исследует крепостное право, крестьянскую общину и другие институты внутренней колонизации. Его исследование выявляет формирующую роль зарубежных колоний в России, самоколонизационный дискурс русской классической историографии и ложные надежды революционных лидеров на союз с экзотическими, миролюбивыми сектантами. Преодолевая границы между историей и литературой, Эткинд исследует выдающиеся произведения о имперском опыте России, от Дефо до Толстого и от Гоголя до Конрада. Эта новаторская книга сочетает в себе исторический, теоретический и литературный анализ в высокооригинальном стиле. Она будет обязательной для чтения для студентов российской истории и литературы, а также для всех, кто интересуется литературными и культурными аспектами колонизации и ее последствий.
This book provides a completely novel way of looking at Russia's cultural history, taking Alexander Etkind as its main protagonist. He relentlessly explores how the Russians conquered and colonised foreign lands and, in the process, domesticated their own hinterland. In doing so, he reaches such an innovative conclusion regarding colonisation by simultaneously understanding it both as an external phenomenon where neighbours were dominated and as an internal process where various groups living on the Russian territory (not exclusively Russian themselves) were also colonised. For researchers interested in empire, colonial art and even globalisation itself, this book represents an ingenious combination of history, theory and even literary criticism. The journey starts with the era of the fur trade before it diverges into all sorts of intriquing topics, with serfs, peasant, communal structures, foreign colonies within the empire, debates about alliances with groups associated with order and wholeness and incredible insights and parallels drawn with certain aspects of Gogol’s work and that of Arthur Conan Doyle. Some ideas are solved through a combination of historical facts and theoretical speculation, while choice quotations by various authors ranging from Daniel Defoe’s “journal for sometime in St Petersburg” to Leo Tolstoy's narratives bring to light equally literate and sometimes deeply philosophical commentary on Russian relationships with their native surroundings and neighbouring countries. For students of both Russian literature and Soviet and post-Soviet history alike, as well as for those interested in studying the complexities of colonisation and imperialism, this is an introduction of uncommon enlightenment and artistry, further embellished with a keen awareness of connections between literature and history.
Электронная Книга «Internal Colonization. Russia's Imperial Experience» написана автором Alexander Etkind в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780745673547
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This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of colonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizing one’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholars of empire, colonialism and globalization. Starting with the fur trade, which shaped its enormous territory, and ending with Russia’s collapse in 1917, Etkind explores serfdom, the peasant commune, and other institutions of internal colonization. His account brings out the formative role of foreign colonies in Russia, the self-colonizing discourse of Russian classical historiography, and the revolutionary leaders’ illusory hopes for an alliance with the exotic, pacifist sectarians. Transcending the boundaries between history and literature, Etkind examines striking writings about Russia’s imperial experience, from Defoe to Tolstoy and from Gogol to Conrad. This path-breaking book blends together historical, theoretical and literary analysis in a highly original way. It will be essential reading for students of Russian history and literature and for anyone interested in the literary and cultural aspects of colonization and its aftermath.
