Eric Lohr — новинки

В монографии прослеживается история института гражданства в России с Великих реформ 1860-х до начала 1930-х годов. Автор рассматривает российские законы и практики в международном контексте и приходит к заключению, что до начала Первой мировой войны история российского гражданства во многом сопоставима с историей гражданства в западных странах. В 1860-х годах правительство старалось увеличить приток иностранцев в страну, что рассматривалось как часть стратегии модернизации. Одновременно царский режим использовал политику гражданства как инструмент влияния на этнический состав населения. Ученый показывает, как с 1914 года в истории российского гражданства начинается поворот к автаркии, кульминацией чего стали изоляционизм и ксенофобия сталинской эпохи.

Russian Citizenship is the first book to trace the Russian state's citizenship policy throughout its history. Focusing on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the consolidation of Stalin's power in the 1930s, Eric Lohr considers whom the state counted among its citizens and whom it took pains to exclude. His research reveals that the Russian attitude toward citizenship was less xenophobic and isolationist and more similar to European attitudes than has been previously thought — until the drive toward autarky after 1914 eventually sealed the state off and set it apart.
Drawing on untapped sources in the Russian police and foreign affairs archives, Lohr's research is grounded in case studies of immigration, emigration, naturalization, and loss of citizenship among individuals and groups, including Jews, Muslims, Germans, and other minority populations. Lohr explores how reform of citizenship laws in the 1860s encouraged foreigners to immigrate and conduct business in Russia. For the next half century, citizenship policy was driven by attempts to modernize Russia through intensifying its interaction with the outside world. But growing suspicion toward non-Russian minorities, particularly Jews, led to a reversal of this openness during the First World War and to a Soviet regime that deprived whole categories of inhabitants of their citizenship rights.
Lohr sees these Soviet policies as dramatically divergent from longstanding Russian traditions and suggests that in order to understand the citizenship dilemmas Russia faces today — including how to manage an influx of Chinese laborers in Siberia — we must return to pre-Stalin history.

Nationalizing the Russian Empire – The Campaign Against Enemy Aliens During World War 1

This book explores the interaction of the Russian military and society in the early modern and modern period. In contrast to straightforward military histories, the volume is concerned with the myriad political, economic and cultural currents that shaped the Russian armed forces from their beginnings in Muscovite times to the end of World War I. The book begins with an attempt by the editors to provide a large frame in which to place the various contributions. What follows are three topical sections, including 22 detailed, often archival based monographic articles. The first section concerns The Military and Society in Muscovy; the second section focuses on The Military and Society in Imperial Russia. The third part analyzes Patriotism, Nationality, Religion and the Military.