Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The Don region
- 2 The wider world of the Don steppe frontier
- Introduction
- 1 Beyond borders, between worlds: Russian Empire and the making of the Don steppe frontier
- 2 People and power on the frontier: liberty, diversity, and de-centralization in the Don region to 1700
- 3 A middle ground between autonomy and dependence: the raiding economy of the Don steppe frontier to 1700
- 4 Boundaries of integration or exclusion? Migration, mobility, and state sovereignty on the southern frontier to 1700
- 5 Testing the boundaries of imperial alliance: cooperation, negotiation and resistance in the era of Razin (1667–1681)
- 6 Between Rus' and Rossiia: realigning the boundaries of Cossack communities in a time of migration and transition (1681–1695)
- 7 The era of raskol: religion and rebellion (1681–1695)
- 8 Incorporation without integration: the Azov interlude (1695–1711)
- 9 From frontier to borderland: the demarcation of the steppe and the delegitimization of raiding (1696–1710)
- 10 Boundaries of land, liberty, and identity: making the Don region legible to imperial officials (1696–1706)
- 11 The Bulavin uprising: the last stand of the old steppe (1706–1709)
- 12 Reshaping the Don in the imperial image: power, privilege, and patronage in the post-Bulavin era (1708–1739)
- 13 Closing the Cossack community: recording and policing the boundaries of group identity (1708–1739)
- 14 A borderline state of mind: the closing of the Don steppe frontier (1708–1739)
- Afterword
- Index
- References
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The Don region
- 2 The wider world of the Don steppe frontier
- Introduction
- 1 Beyond borders, between worlds: Russian Empire and the making of the Don steppe frontier
- 2 People and power on the frontier: liberty, diversity, and de-centralization in the Don region to 1700
- 3 A middle ground between autonomy and dependence: the raiding economy of the Don steppe frontier to 1700
- 4 Boundaries of integration or exclusion? Migration, mobility, and state sovereignty on the southern frontier to 1700
- 5 Testing the boundaries of imperial alliance: cooperation, negotiation and resistance in the era of Razin (1667–1681)
- 6 Between Rus' and Rossiia: realigning the boundaries of Cossack communities in a time of migration and transition (1681–1695)
- 7 The era of raskol: religion and rebellion (1681–1695)
- 8 Incorporation without integration: the Azov interlude (1695–1711)
- 9 From frontier to borderland: the demarcation of the steppe and the delegitimization of raiding (1696–1710)
- 10 Boundaries of land, liberty, and identity: making the Don region legible to imperial officials (1696–1706)
- 11 The Bulavin uprising: the last stand of the old steppe (1706–1709)
- 12 Reshaping the Don in the imperial image: power, privilege, and patronage in the post-Bulavin era (1708–1739)
- 13 Closing the Cossack community: recording and policing the boundaries of group identity (1708–1739)
- 14 A borderline state of mind: the closing of the Don steppe frontier (1708–1739)
- Afterword
- Index
- References
Summary
“Cossacks have made the entire history of Russia,” declared the illustrious Russian writer Leo Tolstoi in 1870. He continued: “Not for nothing do the Europeans call us Cossacks. The Russian people all desire to be Cossacks.” This quote highlights a historical relationship that was central to the course of Romanov empire-building and pervasive in the literary image of Russia, but which problematically straddled Russian conceptions of self and other. If Cossacks truly represented in Geoffrey Hosking's term “an alternative Russian ethnos,” what prevented Russians from realizing their desire to acquire a Cossack identity? Imperial boundaries barred their way. While Peter the Great decreed the divide, Cossacks embraced and patrolled boundaries between their communities and Rus', and identity documents made distinctions legible and permanent.
This book explores how the Don Cossacks negotiated the closing of the frontier that cradled the creation of their community and connects their social history to the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman Empires in the Black Sea basin. In contrast to several comparable raiding communities such as pirates, uskoks, and buccaneers, which briefly flourished, then vanished, in the no-man's lands beyond the jurisdiction of established states in the early modern period, the Don Cossacks survived by changing. In the age of Peter the Great the Don Host transformed from an open, multi-ethnic fraternity dedicated to raiding Ottoman frontiers into a closed, ethnic community devoted to defending and advancing the boundaries of the Russian Empire.
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- Imperial BoundariesCossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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