History course “New imperial history of Northern Eurasia”

Edited by Ilya Gerasimov.
Authors: Ilya Gerasimov, Marina Mogilner, Sergei Glebov.
With the participation of Alexander Semyonov.

 

I. Competing self-organization projects (from 7th to 17th century)

Chapter 1. Political ecology: Formation of the Northern Eurasia region.

Chapter 2. Mechanisms of political and cultural self-organization of Northern Eurasia’s first polities: Formation of the Rouskaya land.

Chapter 3. Consolidation of new political systems: State-building in Northern Eurasia (from 11th to 13th century)

Chapter 4. From local political space to hierarchical statehood: interaction between and interweaving of local power scenarios (13th and 14th centuries).

Chapter 5. New times: Problem of justifying sovereignty and its limits in the Grand Duchy of Moscow (15th and 16th centuries).

Chapter 6. 17th century: Alternative scenarios, the time of troubles.

• Part 1. Transformation of sociological imagination in Northern Eurasian societies.
  
• Part 2. The Grand Duchy of Moscow in search of an “assemblage point”

 

II. Balancing the imperial situation (from 18th to 20th century)

Chapter 7. The long 18th century and the establishment of the modernization empire.

• Part 1. From a “tinder box empire” to a “modern state.”
• Part 2. From a “modern state” to a “modern empire.”

Chapter 8. Dilemma of stability and progress: Empire and reforms, 19th century.

• Part 1. Modern empire in search of a nation
• Part 2. Designing a national empire.

Chapter 9. Empire and revolution:Revolutionary movement in imperial society before the era of mass politics.

Chapter 10. 20th century: Empire in the era of mass society.

• Part 1. Collapse of the regime of the Russian national empire.
• Part 2. Self-organization of a “progressist empire.”
• Part 3. War of globalization and imperial revolution