When it comes to the history of race, it is not obvious where Russia fits in. Some have made the case that race has had little effect on how people were treated in Russia and the Soviet Union. Others, in contrast, have insisted that Russia was no less racist than its European neighbors and their overseas colonies. Race in Russia, it seems, is either irrelevant, or lurking underneath a thin veneer of friendship-of-peoples propaganda. This paradox has made it difficult to understand--both inside and outside of the region--rising racial tension in Russian and Eurasian societies in recent years. Ideologies of Race: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context is a collection of new studies that help to make sense of the paradox. Bringing together historians, literary scholars and anthropologist of Russia, the Soviet Union, Western Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America, Ideologies of Race shifts the question from whether Russia and the Soviet Union had race or racism like the classic racialized regimes (usually Nazi Germany and the United States), to how race worked in Russia and the Soviet Union at various points. It approaches race as ideology, an approach that illuminates the complicated and sometimes contradictory intersection between ideas about race and racializing practices. Examining the ideologies of race in Russia and the Soviet Union yields crucial insights on the global history of race, and the ongoing effects of that history on the contemporary world.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 305.00947
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-ur---
- ISBN
- 9780773558977 9780228000365
- LCCN
- DK33
- LCCN Item number
- I34 2019eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 350 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00240518 (OCoLC)1103923746 (CaOOCEL)458301
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- IDEOLOGIES OF RACE 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Introduction: Race as Ideology: An Approach 12
- PART ONE BEYOND EXCEPTIONAL 36
- 1 Constructing Race, Ethnicity, and Nationhood in Imperial Russia: Issues and Misconceptions 38
- 2 The Matter of Race 68
- 3 Race and Racial Thinking: A View from the Atlantic World 86
- PART TWO THE LIMITS OF UNIVERSALISM 110
- 4 Racial Purity vs Imperial Hybridity: The Case of Vladimir Jabotinsky against the Russian Empire 112
- 5 The Racialization of Soviet Gypsies: Roma, Nationality Politics, and Socialist Transformation in Stalin’s Soviet Union 141
- 6 Russia, Germany, and the Problem of Race 169
- PART THREE EMPIRES MIXING 186
- 7 Racial “Degeneration” and Siberian Regionalism in the Late Imperial Period 188
- 8 Children of Mixed Marriage in Soviet Central Asia: Dilemmas of Identity and Belonging 217
- 9 Race, Regions, and Ethnicities: A Brazilian Perspective 243
- PART FOUR RUSSIA AND THE GLOBE 254
- 10 Occidental Bullyism? Russia, Yun Ch’iho, and Race in the Early Twentieth-Century Pacific 256
- 11 Was Soviet Internationalism Anti-Racist? Toward a History of Foreign Others in the USSR 293
- 12 Pan-Mongolism to Anti-Racist Internationalism: Perspectives from US History 321
- Contributors 348
- Index 352
