The Ukrainian Question
The Russian Empire and Nationalism in the 19th Century
Alexei Miller, Central European University,
Budapest
"Alexei Miller's new book makes a particularly
important contribution to bridging the East-West divide
by applying recent theories of nationality to the issue
of Russian–Ukrainian relations and then testing
his hypotheses with thorough research in archives and
contemporary periodicals. The result both sums up a
large historiography and adds to it substantially. For
anyone interested in tsarist Russia's nationality policy,
or Russian or Ukrainian history, this book is a must
read." — The American Historical Review
"Without doubt this is the most thorough analysis
to date of the emergence of an Imperial policy toward
the Ukrainian movement and the process of defining 'Russianness'
as coterminous with Great Russian language and culture."
— The Russian Review
This pioneering work treats the Ukrainian question
in Russian imperial policy and its importance for the
intelligentsia of the empire. Miller sets the Russian
Empire in the context of modernizing and occasionally
nationalizing great power states and discusses the process
of incorporating the Ukraine, better known as "Little
Russia" in that time, into the Romanov Empire in
the late 18th and 19th centuries. This territorial expansion
evolved into a competition of mutually exclusive concepts
of Russian and Ukrainian nation-building projects.
Excerpts from reviews on the original Russian edition:
"This is a book that connects Russian scholarship
with trends in North American and European scholarship.
At the same time, this book also relates to Post-Soviet
reflections about what constitutes the Russian nation...Miller's
views are revisionist with regard to Ukrainian historiography,
and they should provoke some rethinking or reaction
from that quarter."- Kritika
"Alexei Miller is representative of a new type
of Russian international scholar who is rewriting the
history of Eastern Europe and Eurasia...Pioneering work
on the Ukrainian question in Russian imperial policy."-
Ab Imperio
Contents
Preface; Acknowledgements;
Introduction; Chapter 1 Russia
and Ukrainophilism in the First Half of the Nineteenth
Century; Chapter 2 The First Years of Alexander
II's Reign and Latent Ukrainophilism; Chapter 3
The Advancement of Ukrainophilism in the 1860s. Osnova
and the Russian Press; Chapter 4 The Imperial
Authorities and Ukranophilism, 1862 to 1863. The Genesis
of the Valuev Circular; Chapter 5 The Valuev
Circular in Government Structures and Public Opinion;
Chapter 6 Government Policy after the Valuev
Circular; Chapter 7 Strengthening the Russian
Assimilation Potential in the Western Borderland;
Chapter 8 The Kiev Period of Ukrainophilism (1872-1876);
Chapter 9 The Ems Edict; Chapter 10 The
"Execution" of the Ems Edict; Chapter 11
The Consequences of the Ems Edict; Chapter 12
The Subsidy for Slovo. Galician Rusyns in the Policy
of St. Petersburg; Chapter 13 The 1880-1881 Crisis
of Power and the Attempt to Abolish the Ems Edict; Conclusion;
Appendix 1; Appendix 2;
Sources and Literature; Glossary; Index
of Names
2003
306 pages
ISBN 978-963-9241- 60-2 cloth $44.95 / €37.95 / £30.00
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