This dissertation examines the settlement of Russian religious dissenters (Dukhobors, Molokans, and Subbotniks) in Transcaucasia from 1830 to 1890. During this period, tsarist officials promoted the relocation of sectarians (sektanty) to Transcaucasia--to the exclusion of other …
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How do different opportunity structures influence Russian minority responses, such as varied rates of exit (emigration) and varied degrees of voice (political mobilization), to post-Soviet challenges? What accounts for variation in type of Russian voice? Russian minority politic…
This dissertation traces the evolution of modern medical institutions alongside that of Russian and Soviet policies towards indigenous Central Asians, from the establishment of the Imperial colony through the mid-1930s. Based on two years of archival research in Uzbekistan and R…
This study explores the life and military career of General Peter Bagration. A scion of the Georgian royal dynasty, he was reared in an exiled family in a small town in the periphery of the Russian Empire and rose from obscurity to the highest circles of the Russian society. Pet…
This dissertation concerns the development and interaction of Kazakh and Russian identities in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. My research questions were: (1) what was the character of these identities in 2003/04 (the time of my research); (2) how have these identities interacted to for…
This dissertation is focused on analyzing phonological contact between Slavic and non-Slavic languages in southeastern and northeastern Europe, with the particular goal of describing how the social context of language contact interacts with linguistic factors to shape the outcom…
This dissertation displays that the basic terms and definitions concerning essence and existence, and being by interrogating both Plato and Aristotle's conceptualization and application of these key philosophic concepts. Further, we sought to demonstrate how these basic terms an…
Using the work of Edward Said as a theoretical starting point, this dissertation explores the ways in which Russian literature and culture engaged the Islamic Near East and the Caucasus. Its primary focus is on the first half of the nineteenth century, a time of increased academ…
Ratings made through distance modalities were compared to ratings obtained through face-to-face evaluations. Participants were basic acquisition students of Arabic and Russian, intermediate and advanced Russian students, professional linguists (Russian), and the faculties of the…
One of the central questions in European international relations before the First World War concerned the ownership, control and fate of the Turkish Straits; nevertheless they have occupied an under-appreciated and misunderstood place in Russian foreign policy making as well as …
This dissertation examines the travelogues produced by Russians who went to Iran in the 19th and early 20th centuries (ending in 1917). More than 120 Russian travelers published books and articles about their journeys; the number of these travelogues exceeds 200. With very few e…
I examine Russian national identity from political, military, intellectual, and popular perspectives during both the Crimean War and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. I focus on these two wars for my examination of Russian national identity for various reasons. One reason is bec…
This dissertation is the first study to focus on Russia's attempts to build its empire in the Caucasus in the reign of Catherine II (1762-96). Prior to the reign, Russia's presence in the region was concentrated at Fort Kizliar and in a handful of Cossack settlements on the left…
This dissertation probes the relationship between Russian literary culture and revolutionary terrorism, the writer and the terrorist, the word and the deed, and argues that Russian literature played a significant role not only in making sense of terrorism for a society beset by …
This study traces the course of the two largest compact population movements in the history of Imperial Russia as experiments in social alchemy, whereby Russian officials sought to convert the Caucasus into a society of loyal, productive subjects. Resettlement opened avenues for…
Constructing Jewish Texts in Russian Literature: The Cases of Mandelshtam, Brodsky, and Slutsky examines the problem of Jewish literature and the Jewish artist in the 20th century. It asks: what happens when Jewishness enters the Russian literary tradition? And how does Jewishne…
From incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1828, through the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 governmental language policies and other socio/political forces influenced the Turkic population of the Republic of Azerbaijan to speak Russian. Even with changes since independence …
This dissertation is a compilation and analysis of the Russian historiography of the Tatar Yoke in the post-Petrine, pre-Stalinist period. The scope of research is not entirely comprehensive-plays, novels, librettos, and folk artifacts are largely excluded-but is very extensive,…
In the minds of most historians of imperial Russia, the reign of Tsar Nicholas I (r. 1825--1855) is closely linked with the ideological slogan known as Official Nationality. Consisting of three principles---Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality---and promoted by Russian official…