Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered
edited by Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky
University of Wisconsin Press, 2014 Paper: 978-0-299-29804-3 | eISBN: 978-0-299-29803-6 Library of Congress Classification D371.R87 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 949.603
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
During the nineteenth century—as violence, population dislocations, and rebellions unfolded in the borderlands between the Russian and Ottoman Empires—European and Russian diplomats debated the “Eastern Question,” or, “What should be done about the Ottoman Empire?” Russian-Ottoman Borderlands brings together an international group of scholars to show that the Eastern Question was not just one but many questions that varied tremendously from one historical actor and moment to the next. The Eastern Question (or, from the Ottoman perspective, the Western Question) became the predominant subject of international affairs until the end of the First World War. Its legacy continues to resonate in the Balkans, the Black Sea region, and the Caucasus today.
The contributors address ethnicity, religion, popular attitudes, violence, dislocation and mass migration, economic rivalry, and great-power diplomacy. Through a variety of fresh approaches, they examine the consequences of the Eastern Question in the lives of those peoples it most affected, the millions living in the Russian and Ottoman Empires and the borderlands in between.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lucien J. Frary is an associate professor of history at Rider University. Mara Kozelsky is an associate professor of history at the University of South Alabama.
REVIEWS
“A breakthrough to a new way of conceiving the Eastern Question. This collection relocates the field of vision from Constantinople and the Straits to the borderlands between the Russian and Ottoman Empires, territories stretching from the Balkans to Transcaspia. Utilizing new information from the Russian and Ottoman archives, the Eastern Question is no longer limited to a study in diplomacy, but now acquires political, cultural, national, and economic dimensions, and a larger cast of players.”—Peter Weisensel, Macalester College
“Integrating ethnicity, religion, popular attitudes, violence, dislocation, mass migration, and the complexities of annexing border provinces, all to create a textured, multi-sided glimpse into the actual workings of the last century of Russian-Ottoman relations, this book represents a sampling of international history at its best.”—David Goldfrank, Georgetown University
“This very rich volume of essays has succeeded admirably in bringing to our attention the exciting new trends and directions in Eastern Question scholarship, which promise to keep the field vibrant and dynamic.”—The Russian Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Eastern Question Reconsidered
Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky
1 The Russian Protectorate in the Danubian Principalities: Legacies of the Eastern Question in Contemporary Russian-Romanian Relations
Victor Taki
2 "Dreadful Scenes of Carnage on Both Sides": The Strangford Files and the Eastern Crisis of 1821–22
Theophilus C. Prousis
3 Slaves of the Sultan: Russian Ransoming of Christian Captives during the Greek Revolution (1821–1830)
Lucien J. Frary
4 Russia's Quest for the Holy Grail: Relics, Liturgics, and Great-Power Politics in the Ottoman Empire
Jack Fairey
5 The Crimean War and the Tatar Exodus
Mara Kozelsky
6 Russia, Mount Athos, and the Eastern Question (1878–1914)
Lora Gerd
7 "Forty Years of Black Days"? The Russian Administration of Kars, Ardahan, and Batum (1877–1918)
Candan Badem
8 The Idea of an Eastern Federation: An Alternative to the Destruction of the Ottoman Empire
John A. Mazis
9 Squabbling over the Spoils: Late Imperial Russia's Rivalry with France in the Near East
Ronald P. Bobroff
10 The Eastern Question in Turkish Republican Textbooks: Settling Old Scores with the European and the Ottoman "Other"
Nazan Çiçek
Epilogue: Legacies of the Eastern Question
Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky
Contributors
Index
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Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered
edited by Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky
University of Wisconsin Press, 2014 Paper: 978-0-299-29804-3 eISBN: 978-0-299-29803-6
During the nineteenth century—as violence, population dislocations, and rebellions unfolded in the borderlands between the Russian and Ottoman Empires—European and Russian diplomats debated the “Eastern Question,” or, “What should be done about the Ottoman Empire?” Russian-Ottoman Borderlands brings together an international group of scholars to show that the Eastern Question was not just one but many questions that varied tremendously from one historical actor and moment to the next. The Eastern Question (or, from the Ottoman perspective, the Western Question) became the predominant subject of international affairs until the end of the First World War. Its legacy continues to resonate in the Balkans, the Black Sea region, and the Caucasus today.
The contributors address ethnicity, religion, popular attitudes, violence, dislocation and mass migration, economic rivalry, and great-power diplomacy. Through a variety of fresh approaches, they examine the consequences of the Eastern Question in the lives of those peoples it most affected, the millions living in the Russian and Ottoman Empires and the borderlands in between.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lucien J. Frary is an associate professor of history at Rider University. Mara Kozelsky is an associate professor of history at the University of South Alabama.
REVIEWS
“A breakthrough to a new way of conceiving the Eastern Question. This collection relocates the field of vision from Constantinople and the Straits to the borderlands between the Russian and Ottoman Empires, territories stretching from the Balkans to Transcaspia. Utilizing new information from the Russian and Ottoman archives, the Eastern Question is no longer limited to a study in diplomacy, but now acquires political, cultural, national, and economic dimensions, and a larger cast of players.”—Peter Weisensel, Macalester College
“Integrating ethnicity, religion, popular attitudes, violence, dislocation, mass migration, and the complexities of annexing border provinces, all to create a textured, multi-sided glimpse into the actual workings of the last century of Russian-Ottoman relations, this book represents a sampling of international history at its best.”—David Goldfrank, Georgetown University
“This very rich volume of essays has succeeded admirably in bringing to our attention the exciting new trends and directions in Eastern Question scholarship, which promise to keep the field vibrant and dynamic.”—The Russian Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Eastern Question Reconsidered
Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky
1 The Russian Protectorate in the Danubian Principalities: Legacies of the Eastern Question in Contemporary Russian-Romanian Relations
Victor Taki
2 "Dreadful Scenes of Carnage on Both Sides": The Strangford Files and the Eastern Crisis of 1821–22
Theophilus C. Prousis
3 Slaves of the Sultan: Russian Ransoming of Christian Captives during the Greek Revolution (1821–1830)
Lucien J. Frary
4 Russia's Quest for the Holy Grail: Relics, Liturgics, and Great-Power Politics in the Ottoman Empire
Jack Fairey
5 The Crimean War and the Tatar Exodus
Mara Kozelsky
6 Russia, Mount Athos, and the Eastern Question (1878–1914)
Lora Gerd
7 "Forty Years of Black Days"? The Russian Administration of Kars, Ardahan, and Batum (1877–1918)
Candan Badem
8 The Idea of an Eastern Federation: An Alternative to the Destruction of the Ottoman Empire
John A. Mazis
9 Squabbling over the Spoils: Late Imperial Russia's Rivalry with France in the Near East
Ronald P. Bobroff
10 The Eastern Question in Turkish Republican Textbooks: Settling Old Scores with the European and the Ottoman "Other"
Nazan Çiçek
Epilogue: Legacies of the Eastern Question
Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky
Contributors
Index
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