Western Borderlands/Eastern
Marches of the Russian Empire/Soviet Union
Course for Ph.D. students
Dr.Yaroslav Hrytsak
Dr. Alexei Miller
Dr. Maciej Janowski
1. Framing the Scene: What
is an Empire? What are Borderlands?
Alexander J.Motyl, Thinking About Empire, Karen Barkey and Mark
von Hagen, eds. After Empire. Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building.
The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires (Boulder,
1997): 19-29.
Geoffrey Hosking, Russia. People and Empire, 1552-1917 (Cambridge,
1917):3-41 (Chapter 1. The Russian Empire: How and Why?).
Alfred Rieber, Struggle Over the
Borderlands,S.Frederick Starr, ed., The Legacy of History in Russia
and the New States of Eurasia (New York, London, 1994):61-90.
2. The Structure of the Borderland
Societis and the Patterns of Growth of the Russian Empire before the 19th
Century
S.F. Starr. Tsarist Government:
The Imperial Dimension In: J.R. Azrael, ed., Soviet Nationality Politics
and Practices. New York etc., 1978, pp. 3-37.
Mark Raeff. Patterns of the Russian
Imperial Policy Toward Nationalities In: Edward Allworth, ed., Soviet Nationality
Problems. New York, London, 1971, pp. 23-42.
Edward Thaden, Russia's Western
Borderlands, 1710-1870. Princeton, N.J., 1984, pp. 32-60.
3. Gemeinschaft Societies
and Sacred Communities: Belorussian, Ukrainian and Jewish Traditional Societies
in the 19th Century
Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities.
Reflections on the Origin and Spreas of Nationalism. Rev. Ed. London, New
York, 1991, pp. 258-276.
George Schoepflin. The Political
Traditions of Eastern Europe. Daedalus. Vol. 119. No 1 (Winter 1990), pp.55-90.
4. Integration, Voice and Exit:
Local Elites' Responses toward Imperial Absorption of the Borderlands of
the former Rzecz Pospolyta and the Hetmanate
John D. Klier, Russia Gathers
Her Jews. The Origin of the "Jewish Question" in Russia, 1772-1825. Dekalb,
Illinois, 1986, pp. 3-52, 182-187
Zenon E. Kohut. Russian Centralism
and Ukrainian Autonomy. Imperial Abosrption of the Hetmanate. 1760-1830s.
Cambridge, Mass., 1988, pp. 258-276.
5-6. Empire Meets Nationalism.
Part 1: Russia and Polish National Movement in the 19th Century
Edward Thaden, Russia's Western
Borderlands, 1710-1870. Princeton, N.J., 1984, pp. 63-80, 144-169.
Basil Dmytryshyn, Imperial Russia...,
pp. 196-201, 312-321.
5-6. Empire Meets Nationalism.
Part 2: Emergence of the Ukrainian, Jewish and Belorussian National Movements
Theodore R.Weeks. Nation and State
in Late Emperial Russia. Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier,
1863-1914 (Dekalb, 1996):3-16, 44-69.
Orest Pelech. The State
and the Ukrainian Triumvirate in the Russian Empire, 1831-47
Bohdan Krawchenko,
ed.,Ukrainian Past, Ukrainian Present. (New York, 1992),1-17.
7. Empire Fires
Back Part 1. Russian-Polish Encounter in Western Gubernias, 1863-1914
Edward Thaden, Russia's Western
Borderlands, 1710-1870. Princeton, N.J., 1984, pp.121-144.
Theodore R.Weeks. Nation and State
in Late Emperial Russia. Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier,
1863-1914 (Dekalb, 1996):92-109
8. Empire Fires
Back. Part 2.Ukrainian, Belorussian and Jewish Issue in the Imperial Policy,
1863-1914
Theodore R.Weeks. Nation and State
in Late Emperial Russia. Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier,
1863-1914 (Dekalb, 1996):110-130, 193-199
Stephen Velychenko, Identites,
Loyalties and Service in Imperial Russia: Who Administred the Borderlands?
The Russian Review. Vol.54, No 2:188-205.
David Saunders, Russia's Ukranian
Policy (1847-1905): A Demographic Approach in; European History Quarterly.
Vol. 25 , No 2 (1995), pp. 181-200.
Michael I.Aronson. Troubled Waters:
The Origins of the 1881 Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Russia. Pittsburgh, 1990
(Chapter 7. The Geographical Pattern and Socio-Economic Factors)
Zvi Gitelman. A Century of Ambivalence.
The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to Present. New York, 1988,
pp.1-19.
9. Belorussian, Jewish and
Ukrainian National Movements on the Eve of the Russian Revolution: "Underdevelopped"
or "Arrested"?
Steven L.Guthier, The Roots of
Popular Ukrainian Nationalism: A Demographic, Social and Political Study
of the Ukrainian Nationality to 1917 (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University
of Michigan, 1990): 284-313 (Chapter 7. A Comparative Profile of Belorussia
to 1917).
Steven L. Guthier, The Belorussians:
National Identification and Assimilition Soviet Studies, Vol. 29. No 1
(January 1977):37-49.
Olga Andriewsky, The Politics
of National Identity: The Ukrainian Question in Russia, 1904-1912 (Unpublished
Ph. D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1991): 163-210(The Ukrainian Caucus)
Zvi Gitelman. A Century of Ambivalence.
The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to Present. New York, 1988,
pp.19-37, 59-71.
10. Nations in Turmoil: Belorussians,
Ukrainians and Jews during the W.W.I and the Revolution
Henry Abramson, The Jewish Representation
in the Independent Ukrainian Governments of 1917-1920 Slavic Review, Vol.
50, No 1 (Fall 1991), pp. 542-550.
Geoff Eley, Remapping the Nation:
War, Revolutionary Upheaval and State Formation in Easter Europe, Howard
Aster, Peter J. Potichnyj, Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective.
2nd Edition (Edmonton, 1990): 205-246.
Mark von Hagen, The Russian Empire,
Karen Barkey and Mark von Hagen,eds., After Empire. Multiethnic Societies
and Nation-Building. The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg
Empires (Boulder, 1997): 58-72.
Mark von Hagen, The
Dillemas of Ukrainian Independence and Statehood, 1917-1921 The Harriman
Institute Forum Vol. 7, N 5 (January 1994), 7-11.
Ronald Grigor Suny, The Revenge
of the Past. Nationalism, Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
(Standford, California): 20-83 (Chapter 2. National Revolutions and Civil
War in Russia).
11. Interwar Period
Ronald Grigor Suny, The Revenge
of the Past. Nationalism, Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
(Standford, California):84-110
Slezkin Y. The USSR as a Communal
Appartment, or How a Socialist State Promotes Ethnic Particularism Slavic
Review. Vol.53. N 2 (Summer 1994).
Bohdan Krawchenko, Social Change
and National Consciosness in Twentieth-Century Ukraine (Edmonton, 1987):
113-153.
Steven L. Guthier, The Belorussians:
National Identification and Assimilition Soviet Studies, Vol. 29. No 1
(January 1977):49-61.
Zvi Gitelman. A Century of Ambivalence.
The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to Present.( New York, 1988),
pp.112-156.
Rogers Bruebaker. Nationalism
Reframed. Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (Cambridge,
1997), pp.79-106.
12. Between Hitler and Stalin
Jan T. Gross. Revolution from
the Abroad. The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western
Belorussia. Princeton, N.J., 1988, pp. 225-240.
Bohdan Krawchenko,
Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-Century Ukraine
(Edmonton,Canadian Insitute of Ukrainian Studies,1985), 153-170.
David R. Marples, Stalinism
in Ukraine in the 1940s (Edmonton, Canadian Insitute of Ukrainian Studies,
1992), 42-63.
Zvi Gitelman. A Century of Ambivalence.
The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to Present. New York, 1988,
pp.176-223.
Norman Davies. "The Misunderstood
Victory in Europe", The New York Review of Books. May 25, 1995.
13. Postwar Period, 1945-1991
Ronald Grigor Suny, The Revenge
of the Past. Nationalism, Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
(Standford, California):110-126.
Ivan L. Rudnytsky.
Essays in Modern Ukrainian History, 469-475,477-489.
Roman Szporluk, West Ukraine and
West Belorussia. Historical Tradition, Social Communication, and Linguistic
Assimilation Soviet Studies, Vol. 31, No 1 (January 1979): 76-98.
Steven L. Guthier, The Belorussians:
National Identification and Assimilition Soviet Studies, Vol. 29. No
2 (April 1977):270-283.
14. Disuniting the Union.
Szporluk R. The Soviet West -
or Far Eastern Europe? East European Politics and Societies, 5, 3 (Fall
1991): 466-482
