Denis Vovchenko
Biographic Data
| ID | 196163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis Vovchenko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | Vovchenko |
| SIGNATURE | VOVCHENKO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9419-7243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Army and Progress? The Russian and Greek Reactions to the 1903 Coup in Serbia and to the 1908 Young Turk Revolution
In the early twentieth century, Greece and Russia represented two strikingly different state and social models for the Christian Orthodox world – its first ethnocentric nation-state vs. its last confessional dynastic empire. Yet they demonstrated similar reactions to the military coups in Serbia and the Ottoman Empire. Except for rightwing monarchists, most commentators, diplomats, and officers shared a belief in the potential of army-led moderni…
From Ethnic Hatred to Religious Solidarity
After being dominant in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century, the expectation of fellow Orthodox Russian saviours was then muted by the fears of Russian expansion but was never completely erased from the public discourse and popular memory. If ethnonationalism gradually sidelined religious identification among the educated, geopolitical changes brought it back to the fore. Subject to such contingencies, this kind of reversal does not su…
A Russian stooge or a Greek puppet? Joachim III’s struggle for autonomy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (1864-1912)
Established in 1830, Greece was the first post-Ottoman nation-state. It ambitiously aimed to incorporate all Ottoman provinces populated both by ethnic Greeks and the Slavic-speaking flock of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In contrast, the Romanovs' realm was the only Orthodox Great Power of Europe and one of its last dynastic confessional empires. The Russians had long acted on the flattering self-image as defenders of their suffering coreligionis…
In search of a common enemy
The uneasy Putin-Erdogan partnership reminds of the early twentieth-century trends in the Russo-Turkish relations – taking advantage of each other’s dissidents vs cooperating against Western imperialism. Imperial Russia tended to indulge in the former which undermined the latter tendency in its policies in regards to the Young Turk regime who were similarly making irredentist overtures to Russian Muslim minorities. Both sides were also tempted or…
Ignoring nationalism? Religious, corporate, material, regional and dynastic options on Mt Athos, 1839–1912
The article challenges the existing view of Mt Athos, a centre of Orthodox Christian monasticism, as a hotbed of Russian and Balkan nationalism at the turn of the 20th century. It proposes to analyse that complex situation using the concept of “national indifference,” that is, prioritisation of concerns and loyalties different from the agendas pursued by nationalist activists. The article suggests that the motivations of most Russian and Greek mo…
Caring for the sick man? Russian and Greek reactions to the Ottoman reforms (1856–1908)
Greece and Russia had had a long and complicated relationship to the Ottoman Empire and especially to its sizable Orthodox Christian minority. The Sick Man of Europe was trying to cure himself quite vigorously from 1856 to 1908 but most contemporary Western and Balkan observers as well as modern historians did not rate Ottoman modernization efforts very high. Unlike their Russian counterparts implemented in the same time period, they are never la…
Tsar and Sultan
The rumours of Orientalism’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Edward Said’s paradigm continues to inspire new elegant, eloquent, and erudite studies such as Victor Taki’s based on new perspectives a
Containing Balkan Nationalism
The book focuses on the implications of the Bulgarian national movement that developed in the context of Ottoman modernization (Tanzimat) and of European imperialism in the Near East (the Eastern Question). The movement aimed to separate ethnic Bulgarians from the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Independent church status meant cultural and legal autonomy in the Islamic structure of the Ottoman Empire. In 1870, the Bulgarian Ex…
Creating Arab Nationalism? Russia and Greece in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (1840–1909)
The article discusses Russian and Greek rivalry over the influence in the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch from the end of the Egyptian occupation to the Young Turk Revolution. While Greece ultimately aimed at including Orthodox Arabs in a Pan-Hellenic nation, Russian private and state actors were motivated by the cultural and political commitment to the defence of Orthodoxy from western inroads. Throughout this period, Russian diplomats we…
Modernizing Orthodoxy
The article focuses on "Pan-Slavism" and "Pan-Orthodoxy" to analyze the continuity and change in the Russian relationship to the "Christian East" - mostly Greek and Slavic Christian Orthodox populations in the Ottoman Empire (1856-1914). Far from being conservative utopias, those theories were modern visions that developed in the context of fin-de-siecle Europe and transformed the traditional meaning of the Christian East in order to reformulate …
Gendering irredentism? Self and other in Russian Pan-Orthodoxy and Pan-Slavism (1856–85)
This article will argue that in late 1800s Russian Pan-Orthodox and Pan-Slav activists portrayed their Balkan co-religionists and co-ethnics as both the same as and different from the Russians. By bridging the class divisions of Russian society, this kind of propaganda contributed to the making of a Russian national identity centred on the self-image of powerful virile crusaders for the only true form of Christianity and saviours of the emasculat…
Creating Arab Nationalism? Russia and Greece in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (1840–1909)
The article discusses Russian and Greek rivalry over the influence in the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch from the end of the Egyptian occupation to the Young Turk Revolution. While Greece ultimately aimed at including Orthodox Arabs in a Pan-Hellenic nation, Russian private and state actors were motivated by the cultural and political commitment to the defence of Orthodoxy from western inroads. Throughout this period, Russian diplomats we…
Gendering irredentism? Self and other in Russian Pan-Orthodoxy and Pan-Slavism (1856–85)
This article will argue that in late 1800s Russian Pan-Orthodox and Pan-Slav activists portrayed their Balkan co-religionists and co-ethnics as both the same as and different from the Russians. By bridging the class divisions of Russian society, this kind of propaganda contributed to the making of a Russian national identity centred on the self-image of powerful virile crusaders for the only true form of Christianity and saviours of the emasculat…
In search of a common enemy
The uneasy Putin-Erdogan partnership reminds of the early twentieth-century trends in the Russo-Turkish relations – taking advantage of each other’s dissidents vs cooperating against Western imperialism. Imperial Russia tended to indulge in the former which undermined the latter tendency in its policies in regards to the Young Turk regime who were similarly making irredentist overtures to Russian Muslim minorities. Both sides were also tempted or…
Modernizing Orthodoxy
The article focuses on "Pan-Slavism" and "Pan-Orthodoxy" to analyze the continuity and change in the Russian relationship to the "Christian East" - mostly Greek and Slavic Christian Orthodox populations in the Ottoman Empire (1856-1914). Far from being conservative utopias, those theories were modern visions that developed in the context of fin-de-siecle Europe and transformed the traditional meaning of the Christian East in order to reformulate …
Gendering irredentism? Self and other in Russian Pan-Orthodoxy and Pan-Slavism (1856–85)
This article will argue that in late 1800s Russian Pan-Orthodox and Pan-Slav activists portrayed their Balkan co-religionists and co-ethnics as both the same as and different from the Russians. By bridging the class divisions of Russian society, this kind of propaganda contributed to the making of a Russian national identity centred on the self-image of powerful virile crusaders for the only true form of Christianity and saviours of the emasculat…
Modernizing Orthodoxy
The article focuses on "Pan-Slavism" and "Pan-Orthodoxy" to analyze the continuity and change in the Russian relationship to the "Christian East" - mostly Greek and Slavic Christian Orthodox populations in the Ottoman Empire (1856-1914). Far from being conservative utopias, those theories were modern visions that developed in the context of fin-de-siecle Europe and transformed the traditional meaning of the Christian East in order to reformulate …
Creating Arab Nationalism? Russia and Greece in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (1840–1909)
The article discusses Russian and Greek rivalry over the influence in the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch from the end of the Egyptian occupation to the Young Turk Revolution. While Greece ultimately aimed at including Orthodox Arabs in a Pan-Hellenic nation, Russian private and state actors were motivated by the cultural and political commitment to the defence of Orthodoxy from western inroads. Throughout this period, Russian diplomats we…
Containing Balkan Nationalism
The book focuses on the implications of the Bulgarian national movement that developed in the context of Ottoman modernization (Tanzimat) and of European imperialism in the Near East (the Eastern Question). The movement aimed to separate ethnic Bulgarians from the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Independent church status meant cultural and legal autonomy in the Islamic structure of the Ottoman Empire. In 1870, the Bulgarian Ex…
Tsar and Sultan
The rumours of Orientalism’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Edward Said’s paradigm continues to inspire new elegant, eloquent, and erudite studies such as Victor Taki’s based on new perspectives a
Caring for the sick man? Russian and Greek reactions to the Ottoman reforms (1856–1908)
Greece and Russia had had a long and complicated relationship to the Ottoman Empire and especially to its sizable Orthodox Christian minority. The Sick Man of Europe was trying to cure himself quite vigorously from 1856 to 1908 but most contemporary Western and Balkan observers as well as modern historians did not rate Ottoman modernization efforts very high. Unlike their Russian counterparts implemented in the same time period, they are never la…
In search of a common enemy
The uneasy Putin-Erdogan partnership reminds of the early twentieth-century trends in the Russo-Turkish relations – taking advantage of each other’s dissidents vs cooperating against Western imperialism. Imperial Russia tended to indulge in the former which undermined the latter tendency in its policies in regards to the Young Turk regime who were similarly making irredentist overtures to Russian Muslim minorities. Both sides were also tempted or…
Ignoring nationalism? Religious, corporate, material, regional and dynastic options on Mt Athos, 1839–1912
The article challenges the existing view of Mt Athos, a centre of Orthodox Christian monasticism, as a hotbed of Russian and Balkan nationalism at the turn of the 20th century. It proposes to analyse that complex situation using the concept of “national indifference,” that is, prioritisation of concerns and loyalties different from the agendas pursued by nationalist activists. The article suggests that the motivations of most Russian and Greek mo…
From Ethnic Hatred to Religious Solidarity
After being dominant in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century, the expectation of fellow Orthodox Russian saviours was then muted by the fears of Russian expansion but was never completely erased from the public discourse and popular memory. If ethnonationalism gradually sidelined religious identification among the educated, geopolitical changes brought it back to the fore. Subject to such contingencies, this kind of reversal does not su…
A Russian stooge or a Greek puppet? Joachim III’s struggle for autonomy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople (1864-1912)
Established in 1830, Greece was the first post-Ottoman nation-state. It ambitiously aimed to incorporate all Ottoman provinces populated both by ethnic Greeks and the Slavic-speaking flock of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In contrast, the Romanovs' realm was the only Orthodox Great Power of Europe and one of its last dynastic confessional empires. The Russians had long acted on the flattering self-image as defenders of their suffering coreligionis…
Army and Progress? The Russian and Greek Reactions to the 1903 Coup in Serbia and to the 1908 Young Turk Revolution
In the early twentieth century, Greece and Russia represented two strikingly different state and social models for the Christian Orthodox world – its first ethnocentric nation-state vs. its last confessional dynastic empire. Yet they demonstrated similar reactions to the military coups in Serbia and the Ottoman Empire. Except for rightwing monarchists, most commentators, diplomats, and officers shared a belief in the potential of army-led moderni…
Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Law (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (4 works)