Jane Burbank
Biographic Data
| ID | 164879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Burbank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Burbank |
| SIGNATURE | BURBANK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6927-059X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sabine Dullin, Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie: “Through a glass, darkly”
Rights and Empires: Relations of Authority
The jurisdictional complexity and layered sovereignty of empires converted struggles over rights – their definition, deployment, and distribution – into contests over authority. This chapter examines the close relationship between authority and rights, together with the emergence of variegated rights regimes, in the British, Spanish, and Russian empires. All three empires relied on long-standing routines for assigning different sets of rights to …
Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia
Alexander Morrison. The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914
Journal Article Alexander Morrison. The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914. Get access Alexander Morrison. The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 613. Cloth $99.99. Jane Burbank Jane Burbank New York University, US Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6927-059X Search for other works by this auth…
All Under the Tsar: Russia’s Eurasian Trajectory
This article considers the significance of geopolitical space to the configuration of the Russian Empire. The spatial possibilities for empire depend in part on what other empires have set in place or ignored. Moscow emerged as a bud of imperial power because at the start no great power was interested in its backwater location. Ambitious princes in this region had a chance to expand and learn how to govern before other powers took notice. Moscow’…
Empires after 1919: Old, New, Transformed
1919 was not the death knell of empires: it opened new imperial possibilities. The empires of the losers were destroyed; victors added new territories and a new element—the mandate—to their repertoires; Japan was recognized as a major imperial actor; the Soviet Union constituted a new form of empire; Germany, chafing at its exclusion from the world of empires, created the Third Reich; the US, after promoting a new international order, developed i…
Interview with Richard Pipes: May 14, 2015
Jane Burbank (JB): So Professor Pipes – I find it difficult to call you “Dick” even after all these years! Richard Pipes (RP): I have no objections. JB: We’d like to begin with your book The Russian Revolution. It came out in 1990. You, of course, had already worked for many years on many aspects of Russian history. So why did you decide to focus on the revolution itself at this time? RP: I think it was a suggestion of Isaiah Berlin. I remember t…
Paul W. Werth, The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths, Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia
This compact monograph should become a classic source for students of imperial Russian history. Paul Werth takes up a complex and politically fraught subject—the autocracy’s management of non‐Orthodox religions—and provides us with a judicious account of both fundamental structures of confessional regulation and modifications introduced to this system during a century of challenges and adjustments. Among this book’s outstanding qualities are Wert…
Eurasian Sovereignty: The Case of Kazan
From 1917 through the present, sovereignty has been repeatedly recovered and reconfigured in Kazan and its hinterlands as the area was transferred from one complex polity to another. It is the frequent renegotiation of authority over multiple and redefinable units of political and economic control, rather than stability of institutions, that keeps the political class engaged in the reproduction of both the state and the Eurasian sovereignty regim…
The Empire Effect
Empires—large, expansionist polities that govern different people differently—have a long history, compared with which the nation-state appears as a short-term formation with an uncertain future. Examining the trajectories of empires—their creations, conflicts, rivalries, successes, and failures—reminds us of something overlooked in recent decades: that sovereignty in the past and in many areas today is complex, divided, layered, and configured o…
Imperial Trajectories
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millennia Empires—vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition—have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China an…
Empires in world history: Power and the politics of difference
List of Illustrations vii Preface xi Chapter 1: Imperial Trajectories 1 Chapter 2: Imperial Rule in Rome and China 23 Chapter 3: After Rome: Empire, Christianity, and Islam 61 Chapter 4: Eurasian Connections: The Mongol Empires 93 Chapter 5: Beyond the Mediterranean: Ottoman and Spanish Empires 117 Chapter 6: Oceanic Economies and Colonial Societies: Europe, Asia, and the Americas 149 Chapter 7: Beyond the Steppe: Empire-Building in Russia and Ch…
Empire, droits et citoyenneté, de 212 à 1946
En 1946, alors que l'Assemblée nationale constituante française débattait des articles relatifs à la nouvelle Constitution de l'empire français outre-mer, un député évoqua le précédent de l'empereur romain Caracalla, qui avait accordé la citoyenneté romaine à tous les hommes libres de l'empire en 212 de notre ère. Cet exemple prouvait qu'il était possible d'être citoyen d'un empire sans pour autant renoncer aux ' civilisations locales '. Les aute…
Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917–1929
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Ferro, Marc (dir.). – Le livre noir du colonialisme. xvie-xxie siècle: De l’extermination à la repentance. Paris, Robert Laffont, 2003, 843 p.; Courtois Stéphane, et al. – Le livre noir du communisme …
Le livre noir du colonialisme joins a now significant body of literature in addressing Europe’s reluctance to come to grips with the importance of colonization to its past. The question concerning this book is not the significance of its subject, but the implications of its approach. Since the 1970s or 1980s in the United States, more recently in France, “colonial studies” has become a field of academic inquiry, crossing disciplinary lines. There…
Political Cultures of Advanced Autocracy: Can the Russian Historian Speak
Chris J. Chulos, Converging worlds
Chris Chulos’s study of peasant religious practice in the late imperial period makes a distinctive contribution to the enthusiastic, multi-voiced chorus of new works on Russian Orthodoxy. Chulos begins with a refreshingly personal and direct criticism of the artificial, but fervently sustained division between intellectually informed Orthodoxy and “unschooled faith.” As he eloquently suggests, peasant practitioners of Orthodoxy easily integrated …
Litiges civils et société dans la Russie rurale des années 1905-1917
Les comptes rendus d’audience des tribunaux ruraux russes au début du xxe siècle révèlent le large usage que les paysans faisaient des tribunaux locaux afin de résoudre des disputes concernant le travail, les ressources, les produits et les obligations familiales. Contrairement à l’image qu’en donnaient les élites russes, les paysans n’adhéraient pas à des pratiques arriérées et coutumières, mais ils avaient recours à ces niveaux inférieurs des c…
Insult and Punishment in Rural Courts: The Elaboration of Civility in Late Imperial Russia
Insulte et châtiment devant les tribunaux locaux : la construction de la civilité en Russie impériale tardive - Le présent article examine les litiges pour insultes portés devant les tribunaux locaux en Russie impériale tardive. Les paysans, considérés comme extérieurs au domaine du droit, eurent de fait largement recours aux tribunaux locaux pour résoudre les controverses issues de comportements publics insultants. Les paysans firent appel au dr…
Paysans et intellectuels en Russie (Entretien)
Burbank Jane, Ingerflom Claudio Sergio. Paysans et intellectuels en Russie (Entretien). In: Études rurales, n°149-150, 1999. Justice et sociétés rurales. pp. 173-180
A question of dignity: Peasant legal culture in late imperial Russia
Les tribunaux paysans, instaurés en Russie après l'émancipation de 1861, permirent à la population rurale de se forger des connaissances juridiques. Ces tribunaux volost ' siègèrent pendant plus d'un demi-siécle, attentifs à la fois à appliquer la réglementation nationale et à s'assurer la participation locale. La procédure suivie par ces tribunaux, où les affaires étaient évoquées et jugées par des juges paysans, permit de régler, sur des bases …
Lenin and the Law in Revolutionary Russia
Lenin's views on law, like so many other aspects of his intellectual life, appear in scholarly and political literature primarily as weapons-a striking quotation from State and Revolution here, an insistent instruction to the commissar of justice there-arms wielded in the service of particular aims and, often, interpretations of the Soviet project. A collection of these citations would yield a most disparate arsenal-jabs, slings, barbs and bombs,…
Discipline and Punish in the Moscow Bar Association
The arrogation of the right to self-discipline by professionals in imperial Russia was part of a conscious quest for corporate emancipation and individual dignity. By the late nineteenth century, professional organizations overtly challenged the autocracy's claim over the population of the empire by asserting their own power to define and police behavior. Lawyers were strategically placed in this struggle for a different order: they could bring t…
Russia Abroad: A Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919-1939. Marc Raeff
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millennia Empires—vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition—have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China an…
Lenin and the Law in Revolutionary Russia
Lenin's views on law, like so many other aspects of his intellectual life, appear in scholarly and political literature primarily as weapons-a striking quotation from State and Revolution here, an insistent instruction to the commissar of justice there-arms wielded in the service of particular aims and, often, interpretations of the Soviet project. A collection of these citations would yield a most disparate arsenal-jabs, slings, barbs and bombs,…
Empire, droits et citoyenneté, de 212 à 1946
En 1946, alors que l'Assemblée nationale constituante française débattait des articles relatifs à la nouvelle Constitution de l'empire français outre-mer, un député évoqua le précédent de l'empereur romain Caracalla, qui avait accordé la citoyenneté romaine à tous les hommes libres de l'empire en 212 de notre ère. Cet exemple prouvait qu'il était possible d'être citoyen d'un empire sans pour autant renoncer aux ' civilisations locales '. Les aute…
Eurasian Sovereignty: The Case of Kazan
From 1917 through the present, sovereignty has been repeatedly recovered and reconfigured in Kazan and its hinterlands as the area was transferred from one complex polity to another. It is the frequent renegotiation of authority over multiple and redefinable units of political and economic control, rather than stability of institutions, that keeps the political class engaged in the reproduction of both the state and the Eurasian sovereignty regim…
A Show Trial under Lenin: The Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries, Moscow 1922
1. The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Soviet Regime.- 2. The Announcement of the Trial and the International Socialist Movement.- 3. Preparations for the Trial.- 4. The Treatment of the Accused, Defenders and Witnesses During the Trial.- 5. The Judicial Investigation.- 6. The Socialist Revolutionaries Versus the Bolsheviks.- 7. The Verdict and How It Was Brought About.- 8. The Propaganda Campaign.- 9. The Reactions.- 10. The End.- Conclusion.-…
Empires after 1919: Old, New, Transformed
1919 was not the death knell of empires: it opened new imperial possibilities. The empires of the losers were destroyed; victors added new territories and a new element—the mandate—to their repertoires; Japan was recognized as a major imperial actor; the Soviet Union constituted a new form of empire; Germany, chafing at its exclusion from the world of empires, created the Third Reich; the US, after promoting a new international order, developed i…
Insult and Punishment in Rural Courts: The Elaboration of Civility in Late Imperial Russia
Insulte et châtiment devant les tribunaux locaux : la construction de la civilité en Russie impériale tardive - Le présent article examine les litiges pour insultes portés devant les tribunaux locaux en Russie impériale tardive. Les paysans, considérés comme extérieurs au domaine du droit, eurent de fait largement recours aux tribunaux locaux pour résoudre les controverses issues de comportements publics insultants. Les paysans firent appel au dr…
Revisioning Imperial Russia
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The Empire Effect
Empires—large, expansionist polities that govern different people differently—have a long history, compared with which the nation-state appears as a short-term formation with an uncertain future. Examining the trajectories of empires—their creations, conflicts, rivalries, successes, and failures—reminds us of something overlooked in recent decades: that sovereignty in the past and in many areas today is complex, divided, layered, and configured o…
A question of dignity: Peasant legal culture in late imperial Russia
Les tribunaux paysans, instaurés en Russie après l'émancipation de 1861, permirent à la population rurale de se forger des connaissances juridiques. Ces tribunaux volost ' siègèrent pendant plus d'un demi-siécle, attentifs à la fois à appliquer la réglementation nationale et à s'assurer la participation locale. La procédure suivie par ces tribunaux, où les affaires étaient évoquées et jugées par des juges paysans, permit de régler, sur des bases …
Discipline and Punish in the Moscow Bar Association
The arrogation of the right to self-discipline by professionals in imperial Russia was part of a conscious quest for corporate emancipation and individual dignity. By the late nineteenth century, professional organizations overtly challenged the autocracy's claim over the population of the empire by asserting their own power to define and police behavior. Lawyers were strategically placed in this struggle for a different order: they could bring t…
Controversies over Stalinism: Searching for a Soviet Society
Cet article examine le debat controverse sur le stalinisme qui se deroule dans les universites des pays occidentaux et qui a debute aux Etats-Unis. Il presente en particulier les 2 types de perspectives qui prevalent a ce sujet : la 1 ere et la plus repandue est correlee au probleme de l'explication des faits sociaux dans l'histoire alors que la seconde analyse le stalinisme en Union Sovietique a travers l'approche de la « Glasnost
A Show Trial under Lenin: The Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries, Moscow 1922
1. The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Soviet Regime.- 2. The Announcement of the Trial and the International Socialist Movement.- 3. Preparations for the Trial.- 4. The Treatment of the Accused, Defenders and Witnesses During the Trial.- 5. The Judicial Investigation.- 6. The Socialist Revolutionaries Versus the Bolsheviks.- 7. The Verdict and How It Was Brought About.- 8. The Propaganda Campaign.- 9. The Reactions.- 10. The End.- Conclusion.-…
Russian Studies. Leonard Schapiro , Ellen Dahrendorf
Lost Branches of History
Controversies over Stalinism: Searching for a Soviet Society
Cet article examine le debat controverse sur le stalinisme qui se deroule dans les universites des pays occidentaux et qui a debute aux Etats-Unis. Il presente en particulier les 2 types de perspectives qui prevalent a ce sujet : la 1 ere et la plus repandue est correlee au probleme de l'explication des faits sociaux dans l'histoire alors que la seconde analyse le stalinisme en Union Sovietique a travers l'approche de la « Glasnost
The Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution: Social Realities and Political Strategies. Ziva Galili
Revisioning Imperial Russia
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Russia Abroad: A Cultural History of the Russian Emigration, 1919-1939. Marc Raeff
A question of dignity: Peasant legal culture in late imperial Russia
Les tribunaux paysans, instaurés en Russie après l'émancipation de 1861, permirent à la population rurale de se forger des connaissances juridiques. Ces tribunaux volost ' siègèrent pendant plus d'un demi-siécle, attentifs à la fois à appliquer la réglementation nationale et à s'assurer la participation locale. La procédure suivie par ces tribunaux, où les affaires étaient évoquées et jugées par des juges paysans, permit de régler, sur des bases …
Lenin and the Law in Revolutionary Russia
Lenin's views on law, like so many other aspects of his intellectual life, appear in scholarly and political literature primarily as weapons-a striking quotation from State and Revolution here, an insistent instruction to the commissar of justice there-arms wielded in the service of particular aims and, often, interpretations of the Soviet project. A collection of these citations would yield a most disparate arsenal-jabs, slings, barbs and bombs,…
Discipline and Punish in the Moscow Bar Association
The arrogation of the right to self-discipline by professionals in imperial Russia was part of a conscious quest for corporate emancipation and individual dignity. By the late nineteenth century, professional organizations overtly challenged the autocracy's claim over the population of the empire by asserting their own power to define and police behavior. Lawyers were strategically placed in this struggle for a different order: they could bring t…
Insult and Punishment in Rural Courts: The Elaboration of Civility in Late Imperial Russia
Insulte et châtiment devant les tribunaux locaux : la construction de la civilité en Russie impériale tardive - Le présent article examine les litiges pour insultes portés devant les tribunaux locaux en Russie impériale tardive. Les paysans, considérés comme extérieurs au domaine du droit, eurent de fait largement recours aux tribunaux locaux pour résoudre les controverses issues de comportements publics insultants. Les paysans firent appel au dr…
Paysans et intellectuels en Russie (Entretien)
Burbank Jane, Ingerflom Claudio Sergio. Paysans et intellectuels en Russie (Entretien). In: Études rurales, n°149-150, 1999. Justice et sociétés rurales. pp. 173-180
Litiges civils et société dans la Russie rurale des années 1905-1917
Les comptes rendus d’audience des tribunaux ruraux russes au début du xxe siècle révèlent le large usage que les paysans faisaient des tribunaux locaux afin de résoudre des disputes concernant le travail, les ressources, les produits et les obligations familiales. Contrairement à l’image qu’en donnaient les élites russes, les paysans n’adhéraient pas à des pratiques arriérées et coutumières, mais ils avaient recours à ces niveaux inférieurs des c…
Ferro, Marc (dir.). – Le livre noir du colonialisme. xvie-xxie siècle: De l’extermination à la repentance. Paris, Robert Laffont, 2003, 843 p.; Courtois Stéphane, et al. – Le livre noir du communisme …
Le livre noir du colonialisme joins a now significant body of literature in addressing Europe’s reluctance to come to grips with the importance of colonization to its past. The question concerning this book is not the significance of its subject, but the implications of its approach. Since the 1970s or 1980s in the United States, more recently in France, “colonial studies” has become a field of academic inquiry, crossing disciplinary lines. There…
Political Cultures of Advanced Autocracy: Can the Russian Historian Speak
Chris J. Chulos, Converging worlds
Chris Chulos’s study of peasant religious practice in the late imperial period makes a distinctive contribution to the enthusiastic, multi-voiced chorus of new works on Russian Orthodoxy. Chulos begins with a refreshingly personal and direct criticism of the artificial, but fervently sustained division between intellectually informed Orthodoxy and “unschooled faith.” As he eloquently suggests, peasant practitioners of Orthodoxy easily integrated …
Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917–1929
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Empire, droits et citoyenneté, de 212 à 1946
En 1946, alors que l'Assemblée nationale constituante française débattait des articles relatifs à la nouvelle Constitution de l'empire français outre-mer, un député évoqua le précédent de l'empereur romain Caracalla, qui avait accordé la citoyenneté romaine à tous les hommes libres de l'empire en 212 de notre ère. Cet exemple prouvait qu'il était possible d'être citoyen d'un empire sans pour autant renoncer aux ' civilisations locales '. Les aute…
Empires in world history: Power and the politics of difference
List of Illustrations vii Preface xi Chapter 1: Imperial Trajectories 1 Chapter 2: Imperial Rule in Rome and China 23 Chapter 3: After Rome: Empire, Christianity, and Islam 61 Chapter 4: Eurasian Connections: The Mongol Empires 93 Chapter 5: Beyond the Mediterranean: Ottoman and Spanish Empires 117 Chapter 6: Oceanic Economies and Colonial Societies: Europe, Asia, and the Americas 149 Chapter 7: Beyond the Steppe: Empire-Building in Russia and Ch…
Imperial Trajectories
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
How empires have used diversity to shape the world order for more than two millennia Empires—vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition—have dominated the political landscape for more than two millennia. Empires in World History departs from conventional European and nation-centered perspectives to take a remarkable look at how empires relied on diversity to shape the global order. Beginning with ancient Rome and China an…
The Empire Effect
Empires—large, expansionist polities that govern different people differently—have a long history, compared with which the nation-state appears as a short-term formation with an uncertain future. Examining the trajectories of empires—their creations, conflicts, rivalries, successes, and failures—reminds us of something overlooked in recent decades: that sovereignty in the past and in many areas today is complex, divided, layered, and configured o…
Paul W. Werth, The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths, Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia
This compact monograph should become a classic source for students of imperial Russian history. Paul Werth takes up a complex and politically fraught subject—the autocracy’s management of non‐Orthodox religions—and provides us with a judicious account of both fundamental structures of confessional regulation and modifications introduced to this system during a century of challenges and adjustments. Among this book’s outstanding qualities are Wert…
Eurasian Sovereignty: The Case of Kazan
From 1917 through the present, sovereignty has been repeatedly recovered and reconfigured in Kazan and its hinterlands as the area was transferred from one complex polity to another. It is the frequent renegotiation of authority over multiple and redefinable units of political and economic control, rather than stability of institutions, that keeps the political class engaged in the reproduction of both the state and the Eurasian sovereignty regim…
Interview with Richard Pipes: May 14, 2015
Jane Burbank (JB): So Professor Pipes – I find it difficult to call you “Dick” even after all these years! Richard Pipes (RP): I have no objections. JB: We’d like to begin with your book The Russian Revolution. It came out in 1990. You, of course, had already worked for many years on many aspects of Russian history. So why did you decide to focus on the revolution itself at this time? RP: I think it was a suggestion of Isaiah Berlin. I remember t…
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