The collapse of the Soviet Union brought undeniably drastic changes to the stability of the ethnic landscape across the Former Soviet Union (FSU). Consequently, in the effort to establish new national ideas, FSU states have largely promulgated policy centered around the promotio…
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Eighteenth-century Russian Orthodox pilgrim Vasilii Grigorovich-Barskii spent over two decades traveling through the Orthodox world, traversing popular pilgrim routes crossing through Catholic Europe and the Muslim-majority Ottoman Empire. I examine Barskii’s engagement with his…
This study investigates Maxim Gorky’s public and literary life based on new materials from Italian and Russian archives (Archivio Centrale Dello Stato and the Archives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), which bring to light Gorky’s reasons for returning to the Soviet U…
In this thesis I look closely at the relationship between the Tibetan epic hero Geser and the Buryat Mongols of Southern Siberia over the past century. I concentrate upon on four important periods of Buryat identity crisis in which Geser and his oral epic traditions have been us…
In the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian officials and scientists undertook a project of exploiting the Kazakh Steppe to turn it into an agricultural breadbasket. However, this project ran into difficulties both among the indigenous noma…
The period from World War II to the collapse of the USSR witnessed a remarkable interaction between the Soviet Party-state and Central Asian Muslims. Over the course of these five decades, an institutional foundation came to define relations between the Muslim population and Isl…
This is a study of Soviet relations with developing countries up to the mid-1980s. The focus of the research is on the Soviet development assistance programme, or 'economic and technical cooperation' as it is called in the Soviet Union. Cooperation has been used to build over 2,…
In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Chechens fought against the Russians for independence. The focus in the literature available has been on the wars and the atrocities caused by the wars. The literature then hypothesizes that the insurgency of today is just a continuation of the …
When the militantly atheist, socialist Russian revolution reached the Ferghana Valley in Central Asia, it encountered a profoundly alien society: deeply religious, rigidly stratified, and inflected by dynamics and tensions most Bolsheviks understood nothing of. Many of the first…
My dissertation describes the social and economic history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. According to the all-Russ…
This thesis explores the politics and diplomacy of Soviet efforts to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. Although Soviet leaders began looking for a way out of the conflict soon after the introduction of Soviet troops in December 1979, the war dragged on because Moscow was afr…
Le constat d'une corrélation entre d'une part les guerres sécessionnistes ayant eu cours au Caucase du Sud durant les années 1990 et, d'autre part, le statut politique que les groupes ethniques impliqués dans ces conflits détenaient à l'époque soviétique constitue le point de dé…
North Kazakhstan is a region considered a part of Russian historic territory due to its annexation by the Russian empire. Imperial settlement patterns led to mass ethnic Russian migration at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century and at the time of the …
This thesis examines Egypt’s foreign policy in the mid-1960s through the lens of her five-year intervention in the Yemeni Civil War. It traces the fall of Egyptian fortunes from the aftermath of the Syrian secession to the eve of the Six Day War, arguing that complications arisi…
How did political order emerge in Tajikistan and Georgia after the violent chaos of the Soviet collapse? Despite enormous structural weaknesses--the absence of a national army, impassable mountains, ethnic cleavages, poverty, and foreign-backed insurgencies--stable regimes conso…