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The 2022 Marc Raeff Book Prize
Winner: M. A. Kiselev, K. A. Kochegarov, Ia. A. Lazarev. Patrony, slugi i druz’ia: russko-ukrainskie neformal’nye sviazi i upravlenie getmanshchinoi v 1700-1760-kh gg. Ekaterinburg: Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta, 2022.
The state, Marc Raeff argued in The Well-Ordered Police State, is “the institutional outcome of the actions of many individuals (and not only rulers) in the pursuit of specific values and goals.”
In this major monograph, Mikhail Kiselev, Kirill Kochegarov, and Iakov Lazarev show that the pursuit of individual advantage by both Russian and Ukrainian elites led ultimately to the process of integration that Zenon Kohut once described as the "imperial absorption" of the Ukrainian Hetmanate into the Russian Empire. These elites sought to cement their control over Ukrainian lands and peasants as well as their own integration into a broader pan-imperial aristocracy. Rather than pursuing a thoroughly planned-out colonial policy, the authors show, Russian rulers shaped their policies in the Hetmanate in response to the grasping aspirations of grandees like Kirill Razumovskii. In tracing the role of informal relationships, patronage politics, and elite competition in the making of the Russian Empire, Patrony, slugi i druz’ia builds on decades of scholarship but brings a fresh methodological perspective to this crucial historical episode—along with a vast trove of archival sources, five hundred pages of which are published here as an appendix. While the book does not use archival collections in Ukraine, Sweden, and Poland, its intensive exploration of the underutilized Russian archives on this question makes the book an important contribution to the Ukrainian, Russian, and North American historiography. In the context of contemporary political debates, meanwhile, it clearly demonstrates the fallaciousness of claims that ground the Russian absorption of the Hetmanate in a supposed historical unity of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples.
The five finalists (in alphabetic order):
M. A. Kiselev, K. A. Kochegarov, Ia. A. Lazarev. Patrony, slugi i druz’ia: russko-ukrainskie neformal’nye sviazi i upravlenie getmanshchinoi v 1700-1760-kh gg. Ekaterinburg: Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta, 2022.
Martin, Alexander. From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family's Odyssey, 1768-1870. Oxford: Oxford Univesity Press, 2022.
Müller-Uhrig, Steven. Wer regiert Russland? : das Aufbegehren des russischen Adels 1730 als vermeintliche Gefährdung der Monarchen Europas. BohlauVerlag, 2021.
Nikolaeva, M. V. Ikonostasnoe stroitel'stvo poslednei treti XVII veka: "stoliartsvo i rez'ba", zolochenie, ikonopisnye raboty: Arkhangel'skii sobor i dvortsovye khramy Moskovskogo Kremlia. Tserkvi podmoskovnykh dvortsovykh sel Izmailovo, Alekseevskoe, Vorob'evo. Moscow: BuksMArt, 2021.
Tsyrempilov, N. V. Under the Shadow of White Tara: The Buriat Buddhists in Imperial Russia. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies
ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies (ISSN: 2333-1658)—the flagship journal of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association—is a peer-reviewed, scholarly, online publication devoted to the culture and history of the Russian Empire during ‘the long eighteenth century’ (1660-1830). We define ‘Russian’ broadly, meaning more-or-less the Russian Еmpire, inclusive of non-Russian ethnicities, nationalities, and confessions. The journal is open to submissions in all relevant disciplines and in all the major languages in which eighteenth-century Russian studies is researched. It is intended to provide a forum for the promotion, dissemination and critical analysis of original scholarly research on eighteenth-century Russian studies, based on a spirit of internationalism and a belief in the principle of accessibility. Authors interested in submitting items for inclusion in forthcoming volumes should consult the the submission guidelines on the journal’s website. Inquiries can also be addressed to individual members of the journal’s editorial board.
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Ernest Zitser, Duke University (USA): ernest.zitser@duke.edu
Robert Collis, The University of Helsinki (Finland): robert.collis@helsinki.fi
Olga Tsapina, The Huntington Library (USA): otsapina@huntington.org
Gary Marker, State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA): gmarker@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
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