Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction The Russian Idea: Metaphysics, Ideology and History; V.V.Serbinenko Agrarian Unrest and the Shaping of a National Identity in Ukraine at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; B.Krawchenko Identity and Politics in Provincial Russia: Tver 1889-1905; H.Vasudevan Historical Views of the Russian Peasantry: National Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century; A.V.Buganov Regulating Conflict Through the Petition; M.K.Palat The Stolypin Land Reform as 'Administrative Utopia'; J.Pallot Broken Identities: The Intelligentsia in Revolutionary Russia; D.Beyrau 'Democracy' as Identification: Towards the Study of Political Consciousness During the February Revolution; B.I.Kolonitskii All Power to the Parish? The Problems and Politics of Church Reform in Late Imperial Russia; G.L.Freeze The Poetics of Eurasia: Velimir Khlebnikov Between Empire and Revolution; H.Ram Index

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DIETRICH BEYRAU Professor, University of Tubingen, Germany ALEKSANDR VIKTOROVICH BUGANOV Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow GREGORY L. FREEZE Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of History, Brandeis University, USA BORIS IVANOVICH KOLONITSKII Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg BOHDAN KRAWCHENKO Vice-Rector, Academy of Public Administration, Office of President of Ukraine JUDITH PALLOT Lecturer, University of Oxford and Official Student of Christ Church HARSHA RAM Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Language and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley VIACHESLAV VLADIMIROVICH SERBINENKO Professor, Department of History of Russian Philosophy, Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow HARI VASUDEVAN Professor, Department of History, University of Calcutta

About the Author

MADHAVAN K. PALAT is Professor of Russian and European History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published on the bureaucracy and working class in tsarist Russia, Russian colonialism in Central Asia and on current Russian politics. His most recent publication is Ideological Choices in Post-Soviet Russia.