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Notes
1 Most prominently, H-Russia has been publishing a series of posts devoted to the theme of ‘Decolonizing Russian Studies’ (https://networks.h-net.org/group/317), and the theme of the 2023 ASEEES convention was ‘Decolonization’, https://www.aseees.org/convention/2023-aseees-convention-theme.
2 The major statement of the idea of the ‘imperial turn’ in Russian history is David-Fox et al., ‘The Imperial Turn’.
3 An overview of the field from more than a decade ago is Weeks, ‘Nationality, Empire, and Politics’. Kivelson and Suny, Russia’s Empires integrates ‘Russian’ history and ‘imperial’ history. Kivelson, Kozlov, and Neuberger, Picturing Russian Empire is a recent effort to present an overarching view of the wider empire.
4 I suggested something like this in Smith, ‘The Russian Empire’.
5 One take on the question is Sanborn, Imperial Apocalypse.
6 For a while I made a habit about blogging such cool things, as in ‘Road Rage’ and ‘The Failures of Arbitrary Mercy’.
7 Smith, For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being.
9 Martin, From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars.
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Alison K. Smith
Alison K. Smith is Professor in the Department of History, University of Toronto, who is currently working on a micro history of the palace and town of Gatchina.