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Knowledge and the Ends of Empire

Knowledge and the Ends of Empire

Campbell, Ian
Razin, Andrei
Zaharyaeva, Isabella

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Eastern Studies

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1644698013
ISBN13: 9781644698013
Publisher: Bibliorossica
Published: Feb 1 2022
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.53
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Russian

ENG:

This book investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about the unfamiliar environment and population of the steppe. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to represent themselves and their environment to the tsarist state. Because tsarist officials were uncertain of what the steppe was, and disagreed on what could be made of it, Kazaks were able to be part of these debates, at times influencing the policies that were pursued. By the early 20 th century, though, the tsarist state's pursuit of a policy of mass peasant colonization of the steppe region closed this space for debate. The same local knowledge that Kazak intermediaries had used to negotiate tsarist rule became, with this, a language of resistance.


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