Taken together, these rich essays provide important new frameworks for understanding Russia's imperial geography of power.

ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsComing into the Territory: Uncertainty and EmpireJane Burbank and Mark von HagenPart I: Space1.Imperial Space: Territorial Thought and Practice in the Eighteenth CenturyWillard Sunderland2. The "Great Circle" of Interior Russia: Representations of the Imperial Center in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesLeonid Gorizontov3. How Bashkiria Became Part of European Russia, 1762-1881Charles Steinwedel4. Mapping the Empire's Economic Regions from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth CenturyNailya Tagirova5. State and Evolution: Ethnographic Knowledge, Economic Expediency, and the Making of the USSR, 1917-1924Francine HirschPart II: People6. Changing Conceptions of Difference, Assimilation, and Faith in the Volga-Kama Region, 1740-1870Paul Werth7. Thinking Like an Empire: Estate, Law and Rights in the Early Twentieth CenturyJane Burbank8. From Region to Nation: The Don Cossacks 1870-1920Shane O'Rourke9. Bandits and the State: Designing a "Traditional" Culture of Violence in the Russian CaucasusVladimir Bobrovnikov10. Representing "Primitive Communists": Ethnographic and Political Authority in Early Soviet SiberiaNikolai Ssorin-ChaikovPart III: Institutions11. From the Zloty to the Ruble: The Kingdom of Poland in the Monetary Politics of the Russian EmpireEkaterina Pravilova12. The Muslim Question in Late Imperial RussiaElena Campbell13. The Zemstvo Reform, the Cossacks, and Administrative Policy on the Don, 1864-1882Aleksei Volvenko14. Peoples, Regions, and Electoral Politics: The State Dumas and the Constitution of New National ElitesRustem Tsiunchuk15. The Provisional Government and Finland: Russian Democracy and Finnish Nationalism in Search of Peaceful CoexistenceIrina NovikovaPart IV. Designs16. Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Imperial Geography of PowerAnatolyi Remnev17. Imperial Political Culture and Modernization in the Second Half of the Nineteenth CenturySviatoslav Kaspe18. Federalisms and Pan-movements: Re-imagining EmpireMark von HagenList of ContributorsIndex