New Histories of Northern Eurasia, 700–1917

A Primary Source Reader

Ismael Biyashev, Ilya V. Gerasimov

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350589292
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Eastern European History
• Index: History

This book provides a contextualised collection of 150 newly translated primary sources on the history of Northern Eurasia that spans the period from 700-1917. The selected documents decenter the traditional fixation on the primary Russian-language sources produced in the centers of power by government officials. At the same time, New Histories of Northern Eurasia, 700- 1917 preserves the panoramic perspective on the entangled historical processes and multiplicity of historical actors. Not bound by the constraints of the traditional scheme of Russian history or any other national bias, this sourcebook helps to diversify surveys of Russian and other national histories in the region.

Supported by an online Instructor's Guide, this book reimagines the history of the Eurasian region over fifteen centuries for a new generation of students and scholars, crucially avoiding the usual traps of inadvertent 'Russification' and anachronistic modernization that have so often hampered our understanding until now.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Note on the Text
• Foreword
• 1 Political Ecology The Formation of the Northern Eurasia Region
• 2 Mechanisms of Political and Cultural Self-Organization of Northern Eurasia’s First Polities
• 3 Consolidation of New Political Systems
• 4 From Local Polities to Hierarchical Statehood
• 5 New Times
• 6 The Transformation of Social Imagination
• 7 The Tsardom of Muscovy in Search of an “Assembly Point”
• 8 From the “Gunpowder Empire” to the “Modern State”
• 9 From the “Modern State” to the “Modern Empire”
• 10 The Modern Empire in Search of a Nation
• 11 Designing a National Empire
• 12 Empire and Revolution
• 13 The Collapse of the Rusian National Empire Regime
• 14 Self-Organization of the “Progressive Empire”
• 15 The War of Globalization and the Imperial Revolution
• Index
• Copyright