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This monograph - based largely on memoirs, diaries, archival documents and other primary sources - represents a comprehensive social history of the Moscow merchants in the period between 1855 and 1905.
Özveren, Y. Eyüp. 1997. “A Framework for the Study of the Black Sea World, 1789-1915”. Review (fernand Braudel Center) 20 (1). Research Foundation of SUNY: 77–113. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40241390.
Studies of the nineteenth-century Ottoman and Russian Empires as well as of the numerous nation-states that came into existence around the Black Sea have mostly been pursued separately. This article attempts to offer an alternative framework of analysis for the study of the Black Sea world during the nineteenth century. It starts off from Femand Braudel's approach to the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world in order to discuss whether and to what extent the Black Sea region could also be conceived as a world. Not only structural similarities but also historically-specific circumstances are emphasized for supporting the parallel drawn between the sixteenth-century Mediterranean and the nineteenth-century Black Sea. A number of further intellectual questions are raised in order to demonstrate that a holistic perspective has much to offer for re-directing academic research into more promising problem areas.
O’Neill, Kelly Ann, Between Subversion and Submission: The Integration of the Crimean Khanate into the Russian Empire 1783-1853, Harvard University, Harvard 2006
When we probe at the notion of integration itself more closely, we begin to see that it meant a variety of things. This dissertation challenges the notion that integration was consistently the goal of both imperial officials and the local elites. In Crimea, Catherine declared the local Muslim elite to be the equivalent of Russian nobles, granted them officer ranks, and appointed them to positions in the civil administration. But the empire-building experiment took place just as authorities began to move away from pre-modern multiethnic model, toward the imposition of Russian institutions and centrally-defined hierarchies. The Crimeans' response to this took a fascinating turn. They compiled service records and participated in noble assemblies. But they retained their cultural identity and constantly sought acceptance in imperial society on their own terms. Ultimately, they came to the conclusion that living in, let alone contributing to, the empire was simply not in their interests. By the 1840s, officials found that many Crimeans had long since emigrated, died, or lost interest in integration. Content with their status as unofficial nobles, they remained practitioners of a remarkably neutral, non-committal approach to the Russian empire-building project.
Phillipps-Wolley, Clive, Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus, London: R. Bentley and son, 1881
The book discusses the activities and habits of the inhabitants of these cities/ Το βιβλίο αναφέρεται στις δραστηριότητες και στις συνήθειες των κατοίκων των πόλεων αυτών.
Prousis, Theophilus C., "Risky Business: Russian Trade in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century" in Mediterranean Historical Review vol. 20, no. 2, December 2005, pp. 201-226
An article is included about Russian trade in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century/ Εμπεριέχεται άρθρο για το ρωσικό εμπόριο στην Οθωμανική αυτοκρατορία κατά το 19ο αιώνα.
Przygrodzki, Robert, Russians in Warsaw: Imperialism and National Identity, 1863-1915, Northern Illinois University, 2007
The present volume examines the links between the Russian imperial project in Poland and Russian national identities. By studying the development of Russian national identity in the context of the Russo-Polish conflict, the book defines its contours in an important Russian borderland. Through the use of archival documents, memoirs, the local Russian press, and the annual reports of Varsovian Russian organizationsfrom Warsaw's repositories, it is demonstrating that the local Russian leadership was anxious about the preservation of Russianness within their community.
Skene, James, Henry, The Danubian Principalities: The Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk: In two vol. / By a British resident of twenty years in the East, London: R. Bentley: 1854. - 2 vol.
The book includes reflections on the relations between Christians and Ottomans in the Danubian principalities/ Το βιβλίο περιλαμβάνει σκέψεις σχετικά με τις σχέσεις χριστιανών και οθωμανών στις Παραδουνάβιες ηγεμονίες.
Skene, James, Henry, The frontier lands of the Christian and the Turk; comprising travels in the regions of the lower Danube in 1850 and 1851: In two vol./ By a British resident of twenty years in the East, London: R. Bentley: 1853. - 2 vol.
The book includes reflections on the relations between Christians and Ottomans in the Danubian principalities/ Το βιβλίο περιλαμβάνει σκέψεις σχετικά με τις σχέσεις χριστιανών και oθωμανών στις Παραδουνάβιες ηγεμονίες.
Surguladze, Abel - Sioridze, Malkhas, South-western Georgian histori [sir] essays: Adjara, vol. III, Batumi: Shota Rustaveli state University, 2008
Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adventurers, criminals, and merrymakers who flocked there to seek easy wealth and lead lives of debauchery and excess. Odessa is also famed for the brand of Jewish humor brought there in the 19th century from the shtetls of Eastern Europe and that flourished throughout Soviet times. From a broad historical perspective, this volume examines the hybrid Judeo-Russian culture that emerged in Odessa in the 19th century and persisted through the Soviet era and beyond. The book shows how the art of eminent Soviet-era figures such as Isaac Babel, Il'ia Ilf, Evgenii Petrov, and Leonid Utesov grew out of the Odessa Russian-Jewish culture into which they were born and which shaped their lives.
Tuna, Mustafa O., Imperial Russia's Muslims: Inroads of Modernity, Princeton University, Princeton 2009
Especially after the 1870s, reformist Muslim intellectuals and the Russian state provided two of those channels, and this dissertation argues that both of them failed in their aims. Several thousand Muslim reformists represented an opportunity for social mobilization, but then, they lost touch with the broader Muslim population, in effect distancing themselves from the values upheld by Muslim peasants. Moreover, the Russian state accused Muslim reformists of separatism and suppressed their activities. At the same time, Russian statesmen increasingly sought a more homogeneous population in order to keep Russia strong in the global competition for power and wanted to transform Muslims accordingly. But, agents of the imperial state could not enforce homogenizing policies compellingly while trying to maintain the regionally heterogeneous and non-participatory imperial governing system.
Ulianova, Galina, Female entrepreneurs in nineteenth-century Russia, Pickering and Chatto, London 2009
The present volume examines the history of female entrepreneurship in the Russian Empire during nineteenth-century industrial development. According to Russian law, women enjoyed the same property rights as men, so the principle of separate personal property in marriage made it possible for a woman to be independent in business matters. This study uses statistical information on female entrepreneurs from 1814 to 1900, and sociologically analyzes the data on a wide range of enterprises, from cottage industries to large-scale manufacturing operations. It also includes lively case histories which reveal the background to a number of family fortunes including instances of bankruptcy and property litigations between close family members.
United States, Black Sea pilot, the Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus, Black Sea and Sea of Azov, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927
Τhis study of the raznochintsy, drawing on a rich array of archival, legal, administrative, and public sources, shows how this important but elusive category functioned in Russian society from the time of Peter the Great to the late nineteenth century. Challenging the traditional image of a rigidly hierarchical social structure, the study indicates that there was much more mobility within imperial Russian society than historians have previously thought.
Wirtschafter, Elise Kimerling, Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861, Blackwell, Oxford 2008
Russia’s Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 offers a broad interpretive history of the Russian Empire from the time of serfdom’s codification until its abolition following the Crimean War. It considers the institution of serfdom, official social categories, and Russia’s development as a country of peasants ruled by nobles, military commanders, and civil servants and the reality of absolute monarchy in Russia, with special emphasis on the mobilization of human and material resources, the search for regular government, and the persistence of personal-moral forms of authority.
Zipperstein, Steven, The Jews of Odessa. A Cultural History, 1794-1881, Stanford University Press, California 1986
Η Οδησσός ιδρύθηκε το 1794 ως μια συνοριακή πόλη της Μαύρης θάλασσας για να μετατραπεί σύντομα σε ένα από τα πιο πολυσύχναστα λιμάνια της Ρωσίας. Έποικοι όλων των εθνικοτήτων αναζήτησαν την τύχη τους στην Οδησσό, μεταξύ των οποίων και Εβραίοι που προήλθαν από μια από τις πιο εύρωστες, πολυπληθέστερες και πολιτισμικά γόνιμες εβραϊκές κοινότητες της Ευρώπης. Η ιστορία της εβραϊκής Οδησσού εντοπίζει την άνοδο αυτή της κοινότητας από την ίδρυση της το 1794 έως τα πογκρόμ του 1881 που ξέσπασαν μετά τη δολοφονία του Αλέξανδρου ΙΙ. /Founded in 1794 as a frontier city on the Black Sea, Odessa soon grew to be one of Russia's busiest seaports. Settlers of all nationalities went there to seek their fortune, among them Jews who came to form one of the largest, wealthiest, and most culturally fertile Jewish communities in Europe. This history of Jewish Odessa traces the rise of that community from its foundation in 1794 to the pogroms of 1881 that erupted after the assassination of Alexander II. More a modern metropolis than any other Russian city with a significant Jewish population, Odessa offers a window into the diversity of Russian Jewish experience
Αγτζίδης, Βλάσης, Ποντιακός ελληνισμός: Από την γενοκτονία και το σταλινισμό στην περεστρόικα, Κυριακίδη Αφοί, Θεσσαλονίκη 1990
