CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Zulkharneyev, Albert Farhatovich |
|---|---|
| Title | Between colony and province: Projects on the Integration of Transcaucasia into the Russian Empire, 1820-1830s |
| Summary | The purpose of this thesis is to understand what role in the Russian imperial policies was attributed to Transcaucasia by the Russian political elite in 1820-1830s. This question is studied through the analysis of the Russian projects for the development and integration of the region into the Russian empire. These projects (often described in letters, reports and notes) reflect the attitudes and ideas, intentions and plans on Transcaucasia of the functionaries of the central and local administrations, military officers, diplomats and public figures, who subscribed to varying political views. Two main strategies of the Russian relations with Transcaucasia were suggested by the projects: creation a kind of the colonial enterprise on the pattern of the East Indian Company and the state-based incorporation of the region into the common imperial system. The projects are analyzed through the prism of three main approaches in the study of the Russian expansion in Transcaucasia, which are based on the concepts of “colony”, “frontier” and “orientalism”. I argue that understanding of the role attributed to Transcaucasia lies in the consideration of the correlation between the notions of “colony” of the overseas empires and “frontier” of the contiguous empires. On the question, was Transcaucasia “colony” or “province” in the first half of the 19th century, I answer , it was neither. “Colony” and “province” were the two extremes in the range of the alternatives in the discussion on the incorporation of the Transcaucasian frontier into the Russian imperial system. |
| Supervisor | Rieber, Alfred, J. |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/zulkharneyev_albert.pdf |
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