Victor Taki

Biographic Data

ID2364679
NAMEVictor Taki
GIVEN NAMESVictor
FAMILY NAMETaki
SIGNATURETAKI V
AFFILIATIONSConcordia University of Edmonton
ORCID0009-0006-2844-9696
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The Crimean War and Russia’s Relations with European Powers

    Victor TakiARTICLERussia in Global Affairs2026

    This epochal change in the structure of European international politics finally led to the conclusion of a Franco-Russian alliance in the early 1890s. However, this alliance proved insufficient to counterbalance unified Germany and its Austro-Hungarian satellite. In July 1914, the FrancoRussian alliance even contributed to the transformation of another Balkan crisis into a pan-European conflict, in which Russia suffered defeat while France achiev…

  • Russophilia and Madness in Nineteenth-Century Romania

    Victor TakiARTICLEJournal of Romanian Studies2022References: 6

    This article examines the political writings of Michel Anagnosti, a French-educated Wallachian intellectual and publicist who came of age during the period of Russian hegemony in the Romanian principalities in the 1830s. Although Anagnosti was at first critical of Russian policies, the subsequent evolution of his political views placed him increasingly at odds with the “Fortyeighters”—the participants of the 1848 revolution in Wallachia that was …

  • Mara Kozelsky. Crimea in War and Transformation

    Open AccessVictor TakiARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    In Western historical memory, the Crimean War is associated with the Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale, and the end of the age of sail and the beginning of modern war journalism. In recent decades, historians have tried to go beyond this all-too-familiar picture by exploring the global dimension of this conflict or by telling its story from the Russian, or the Ottoman, perspective. Mara Kozelsky’s thoroughly researched and archiva…

  • Brian L. Davies, The Russo-Turkish War, 1768–1774. Catherine II and the Ottoman Empire

    Victor TakiARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2017

    Historians rarely consider the Russian–Ottoman war of 1768–74 to be a conflict of the first order, yet the geopolitical changes that it brought about were truly momentous. After 1774, the rollback

  • From partisan war to the ethnography of European Turkey

    Victor TakiARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2016References: 6

    The Balkan entanglements of the Great Powers have long interested historians of war, diplomacy, and nation-building in South-Eastern Europe. Although tsarist officers played a central role in Russian policies in the region, historians have rarely treated their writings as expressions of specifically military concerns and preoccupations. The present article seeks to fill this gap by reconstructing the Balkan career of Ivan Liprandi, a Russian offi…

  • Victor Taki, 1812 și crearea regiunii Basarabia

    Open AccessVictor TakiARTICLEPLURAL History Culture Society2015

    This article addresses the policies of the Russian authorities in Bessarabia in the two decades that followed the annexation of this territory in 1812. It examines the process of discursive and administrative construction of the Bessarabian province out of the territories that for centuries existed under different political jurisdictions. The article argues that the early Russian accounts of Bessarabia re-described these territories into a single…

  • In search of true monarchy

    Victor TakiARTICLEEuropean Review of History Revue…2009References: 10

    From the early eighteenth century, Russian autocracy derived its legitimacy in part from the policy of enlightened reform in accordance with the principles of Western political theory. An increasing engagement of the representatives of the Russian elites with the same notions towards the beginning of the nineteenth century led them to formulate critiques of Russia's recent historical development and its contemporary political system. This article…

  • Moldavia and Wallachia in the Eyes of Russian Observers in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

    Victor TakiARTICLEEast Central Europe2005Cited by: 2

    Taking as its starting point the Enlightenment discourse about Eastern Europe, thc article examines the way Russian elites responded to the emergence of the West-East symbolic divide through discovery and appropriation of their own "Orient." The encounter of the Westernized Russian officer corps and diplomats with the Hellenized Romanian boyar elite of Moldavia and Wallachia in the course of the Russian-Ottoman wars provides an illustration of th…

  • Molda via and Wallachia in the Eyes of Russian Observers in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

    Victor TakiARTICLEEast Central Europe2005

    Taking as its starting point the Enlightenment discourse about Eastern Europe, the article examines the way Russian elites responded to the emergence of the West-East symbolic divide through discovery and appropriation of their own "Orient." The encounter of the Westernized Russian officer corps and diplomats with the Hellenized Romanian boyar elite of Moldavia and Wallachia in the course of the Russian-Ottoman wars provides an illustration of th…