The Empire of the Romanovs and nationalism. Essay on the methodology of historical research

The empire, among other things, is a space where various ethnic groups interact with the authorities. This is the history of uprisings and repression, struggle and cooperation, acultural, assimilation and dissimilation. Such a story of the Romanov empire has not yet been written. A. Miller, one of the leading Russian experts in the history of empires, author of the Ukrainian question in the politics of the authorities and Russian public opinion "(2000), co -editor of the Western Outskirts of the Russian Empire recently published in the" UFO ", in his new work About how you can write the history of the empire so that it does not turn into the sum of national and regional narratives and is not a repetition of the traditional imperial version of Russian history. What were the relations of Russian nationalism and empire? What was the "Jewish question" for the empire? Why are language and alphabet important for the empire? What is more significant for her - identity or loyalty? Why did all the continental empires on the outskirts of Europe collapsed during the First World War? These and other issues no less significant for historical science are considered on the pages of this book