2024/12/25 by Gregory Afingenov · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Soviet and Russian History #Chinese history and philosophy
paper · pdf · doi:10.21900/j.vivliofika.v12.1824
openalex publication_date 2024/12/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This article examines the stakes of the 2023 renaming of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association to the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire Studies Association. It argues that this renaming helps us to re-envision the stakes of the field and to conceptualize the Russian Empire as a conceptual space bigger than and not solely connected to modern-day Russia. It does so by looking at the Duc de Richelieu’s role in the history of modern-day Odesa and his reception by Soviet, Ukrainian, and Western scholars, focusing especially on his settler colonial project.