David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye
Biographic Data
| ID | 610251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Schimmelpenninck |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Oye |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER OYE D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bystrova, Nina E. ‘Russkii vopros’ v 1917 - nachale 1920 g: Sovetskaya Rossiya i velikie derzhavy. Moscow: Institut rossiiskoi istorii RAN, Tsentr gumanitarnykh initsiativ, 2016. 368 p
Long dismissed as the "forgotten war", Russia's involvement in the World War I is fi nally getting the attention it deserves.This renewed interest in the confl ict, resulting from many commemorations and conferences, not to mention freer access to the archives, has also done much to make the Eastern Front an important part of the Great War's broader narrative.The same is true of Russian diplomacy during the period.It is against that background th…
Alfred J. Rieber. Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia
Alfred J. Rieber’s new book about Joseph Stalin’s geopolitics draws an interesting parallel between Rieber’s subject and two other aggressive empire builders of the modern age: Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler. All were born outside of the country they would rule. This fact is central to Rieber’s contention that Stalin’s Caucasian origins were key to his politics. Thus, Rieber argues that the Georgian-born Soviet leader was shaped by “three in…
Getting to Know the Unknown War
Grigorii Nikolaevich Trubetskoi, Notes of a plenipotentiary: Russian diplomacy and war in the Balkans, 1914–1917
Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars 1917–1929 by Victor Madeira
"Britannia and the Bear: The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars 1917–1929 by Victor Madeira." Canadian Journal of History, 51(3), pp. 698–699
Paul's great game: Russia's plan to invade British India
This article examines the ill-fated Russian expedition to conquer British India in 1801 with a Cossack host via Central Asia. Undertaken by Emperor Paul I during his brief diplomatic dalliance with Napoleon, the enterprise proved highly unrealistic and was abandoned less than a month after it began. I pay special attention to the knowledge that officials in Saint Petersburg had about the regions to be traversed. I conclude that, despite British f…
Asie centrale: L'invention des frontières et I'héritage russo-soviétique. By Svetlana Gorshenina. Espaces et milieux. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2012. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs…
Asie centrale: L'invention des frontières et I'héritage russo-soviétique. By Svetlana Gorshenina. Espaces et milieux. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2012. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps. €27.00, paper. - Volume 73 Issue 1
Memoir: My Canadian Diary
According to an exchange agreement with Moscow State University, Brock University occasionally invites one of its history professors to teach here for a semester. Our second visitor was Aleksandr Pavlovich Shevyrev, an associate professor (dotsent) with the section for nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russian history. He spent the Winter 2008 semester at Brock, during which he kept a diary. I have somewhat abridged my translation
The Curious Fate of Edward Said in Russia
This article examines the reception of Edward Said’s book Orientalism in Russia. While Said made little mention of Russia, a number of scholars, including Russians abroad like Vera Tolz and Alexander Etkind, have examined Russian Orientalism according to Said’s schema. As for Russia itself, the book remains relatively understudied. I explain why Said has been largely ignored in Russia, as well as the appropriation of his ideas by the nationalist …
Taline Ter Minassian, Reginald Teague-Jones. Au service secret de l’Empire britannique
As if to distract from its own sanguinary excesses, many of the twentieth century’s more repressive regimes took great care to establish a martyrology to inspire the masses. Thus the Third Reich commemorated the assassinated SA-activist Horst Wessel with its second anthem, Mao’s China celebrated “Sister” Jiang Zhuyun with an opera, and every Soviet schoolchild was well acquainted with the story of Pavlik Morozov, the teenager who was murdered by …
All the Tsar's Men: Russia's General Staff and the Fate of Empire, 1898-1914
Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration
Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration
The Oriental Muse
According to Edward Said, Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt was the defining moment in modern scholarship of the East and began a long series of European encounters with the Orient. The East was a source of inspiration for the German Romantics who rebelled against Hellenism, and the Orient was particularly appealing to them. Romanticism exerted a strong influence on early nineteenth-century Russian authors, who were increasingly receptive to…
The Forest and the Steppe
The East Slavs, the ancestors of the Russians, first settled Europe's wooded northeastern periphery sometime in the latter half of the first millennium. Their notion of self and other would ultimately be defined by forest and steppe, and some of them eventually came to pay tribute to the Khazars that controlled the region around the lower Volga River from the seventh through the ninth centuries. The Khazars profited from commerce with various tra…
Missionary Orientology
Entries
Mirza Kazem-Bek and the Kazan School of Russian Orientology
“Mirza Kazem-Bek and the Kazan School of Russian Orientology” examines the rise and fall of Kazan University's section of Oriental Letters (razriad vostochnoi slovesnosti), Imperial Russia's most important academic institution for the study of Asia in the early nineteenth century. Focusing on the university's prominent Persianist, Mirza Aleksandr Kasimovich Kazem-Bek, the article argues that in Russia scholars of the East did not always adhere to…
Rewriting the Russo‐Japanese War: A Centenary Retrospective
The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, Volume II
Like Volume one, Volume two of The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, and cultural context. In this volume East Asian contributors focus on the Asian side of the war to flesh out the assertion that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global confl ict of the 20th century. The contributors demonstrate that the Russo-Japanese War, largely…
The Russo-japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero (History of Warfare)
Russian foreign policy: 1815–1917
During the final century of Romanov rule, Russian foreign policy was motivated above all by the need to preserve the empire's hard-won status as a European Great Power. The only real arena for Russian expansion after 1815 was in Asia. The Vienna Conference of 1814-15 set the European diplomatic order of the nineteenth century. Summoned in the wake of Napoleon's defeat, statesmen of the leading powers and a host of lesser monarchies assembled in t…
Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, Volume II
Marlène Laruelle, Mythe aryen et rêve impérial dans la Russie du xixe siècle
What is the intellectual genealogy of Eurasianism, the notion that Russia is separate from Europe and Asia yet combines elements from both continents? This is the question Marlene Laruelle, a prolific young French scholar of Russian national identity, currently at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, considers in her provocative new book, Mythe aryen et reve imperial dans la Russie du xixe siecle. Laruelle’s curiosity was piqued as she wrote …
The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, Volume I
This volume examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, economic, and cultural context. Through the use of research from newly opened Russian and little used Japanese sources the editors assert that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global conflict in the 20th century. The contributors demonstrate that the Russo-Japanese War, largely forgotten in the aftermath of World War One, actu…
The Curious Fate of Edward Said in Russia
This article examines the reception of Edward Said’s book Orientalism in Russia. While Said made little mention of Russia, a number of scholars, including Russians abroad like Vera Tolz and Alexander Etkind, have examined Russian Orientalism according to Said’s schema. As for Russia itself, the book remains relatively understudied. I explain why Said has been largely ignored in Russia, as well as the appropriation of his ideas by the nationalist …
Paul's great game: Russia's plan to invade British India
This article examines the ill-fated Russian expedition to conquer British India in 1801 with a Cossack host via Central Asia. Undertaken by Emperor Paul I during his brief diplomatic dalliance with Napoleon, the enterprise proved highly unrealistic and was abandoned less than a month after it began. I pay special attention to the knowledge that officials in Saint Petersburg had about the regions to be traversed. I conclude that, despite British f…
Towards the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan
All the Tsar's Men: Russia's General Staff and the Fate of Empire, 1898-1914
Mirza Kazem-Bek and the Kazan School of Russian Orientology
“Mirza Kazem-Bek and the Kazan School of Russian Orientology” examines the rise and fall of Kazan University's section of Oriental Letters (razriad vostochnoi slovesnosti), Imperial Russia's most important academic institution for the study of Asia in the early nineteenth century. Focusing on the university's prominent Persianist, Mirza Aleksandr Kasimovich Kazem-Bek, the article argues that in Russia scholars of the East did not always adhere to…
Russia’s ambivalent response to the Boxers
La réaction ambiguë de la Russie à l’insurrection des Boxers. – À l’instar des autres puissances ayant des intérêts en Chine, la Russie prit part à l’intervention militaire visant à écraser l’insurrection des Boxers, cette explosion de violence xénophobe qui eut lieu à Pékin et dans les provinces voisines dans le courant de l’été 1900. Cependant, la participation de Saint-Pétersbourg à cette opération se distinguait de celle de ses partenaires pa…
Researching Chinese History in Russia: A Guide to Archives in Moscow and St. Petersburg
It is already a cliché that the fall of the Soviet Union is providing an archival bonanza to historians. Naturally most attention is on sensational revelations from previously-inaccessible collections about Russia's own past. Yet those interested in other nations can also profit from the new openness of Moscow's and St. Petersburg's archives. This is particularly true for specialists in nineteenth-century Chinese history: Tsarist diplomats, offic…
From Cooperation to Confrontation? Reflections on the Russian-American Encounter on the Pacific
Towards the end of his lengthy study of the United States, De la démocratic en Amérique , the early nineteenth-century French liberal Alexis de Tocque-ville wrote: Il y a aujourd'hui sur la terre deux grands peuples qui [...] semblent s'avancer vers le même but: ce sont les Russes et les Anglo-Américains. Leur point de départ est différent, leurs voies sont diverses; néamoins, chacun d'eux semble appelé pas un dessein secret de la Providence à te…
The Fall of the Russian Empire
Russia’s ambivalent response to the Boxers
La réaction ambiguë de la Russie à l’insurrection des Boxers. – À l’instar des autres puissances ayant des intérêts en Chine, la Russie prit part à l’intervention militaire visant à écraser l’insurrection des Boxers, cette explosion de violence xénophobe qui eut lieu à Pékin et dans les provinces voisines dans le courant de l’été 1900. Cependant, la participation de Saint-Pétersbourg à cette opération se distinguait de celle de ses partenaires pa…
The Fall of the Russian Empire
n November 1994 Boris Yeltsin, the president of Russia, was worried about his standing in the opinion polls. Elections to the State Duma the previous year had not gone well, and the legislature was now dominated by a 'red-brown1 opposition of old-line communists and nationalists like Vladimir Zhirinovskiis somewhat misleadingly named Liberal Democratic party. Meanwhile, chronic economic difficulties, rising crime, and increasingly flagrant corrup…
Russia's Asian Temptation
THE RUSSIAN SYMBOLIST POET Aleksander Blok wrote 'The Scythians' in January 1918. The Romanov dynasty had collapsed less than a year earlier, and Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik party now ruled the former empire. Shortly before Blok wrote the poem, Soviet officials signed an armistice with Imperial Germany that took Russia out of the First World War. On 3 March 1918, a little over a month after the poem was completed, Lenin's infant regime concluded a…
The Russo-Japanese War
There are some intriguing parallels between the Russo-Japanese War and late Imperial Russia's two other great military debacles. Like the Crimean conflict 50 years earlier, the war against Japan of 1904 and 1905 was fought on the empire's periphery, where daunting logistical difficulties hampered the struggle against a modern, well-equipped adversary. And, as in the Crimea, tsarist generals on Manchuria's Liaodong Peninsula, where most of the act…
Towards the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan
Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan
The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, Volume I
This volume examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, economic, and cultural context. Through the use of research from newly opened Russian and little used Japanese sources the editors assert that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global conflict in the 20th century. The contributors demonstrate that the Russo-Japanese War, largely forgotten in the aftermath of World War One, actu…
Russian foreign policy: 1815–1917
During the final century of Romanov rule, Russian foreign policy was motivated above all by the need to preserve the empire's hard-won status as a European Great Power. The only real arena for Russian expansion after 1815 was in Asia. The Vienna Conference of 1814-15 set the European diplomatic order of the nineteenth century. Summoned in the wake of Napoleon's defeat, statesmen of the leading powers and a host of lesser monarchies assembled in t…
Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, Volume II
Marlène Laruelle, Mythe aryen et rêve impérial dans la Russie du xixe siècle
What is the intellectual genealogy of Eurasianism, the notion that Russia is separate from Europe and Asia yet combines elements from both continents? This is the question Marlene Laruelle, a prolific young French scholar of Russian national identity, currently at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, considers in her provocative new book, Mythe aryen et reve imperial dans la Russie du xixe siecle. Laruelle’s curiosity was piqued as she wrote …
The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero, Volume II
Like Volume one, Volume two of The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, and cultural context. In this volume East Asian contributors focus on the Asian side of the war to flesh out the assertion that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global confl ict of the 20th century. The contributors demonstrate that the Russo-Japanese War, largely…
The Russo-japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero (History of Warfare)
Mirza Kazem-Bek and the Kazan School of Russian Orientology
“Mirza Kazem-Bek and the Kazan School of Russian Orientology” examines the rise and fall of Kazan University's section of Oriental Letters (razriad vostochnoi slovesnosti), Imperial Russia's most important academic institution for the study of Asia in the early nineteenth century. Focusing on the university's prominent Persianist, Mirza Aleksandr Kasimovich Kazem-Bek, the article argues that in Russia scholars of the East did not always adhere to…
Rewriting the Russo‐Japanese War: A Centenary Retrospective
Entries
Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration
Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration
The Oriental Muse
According to Edward Said, Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt was the defining moment in modern scholarship of the East and began a long series of European encounters with the Orient. The East was a source of inspiration for the German Romantics who rebelled against Hellenism, and the Orient was particularly appealing to them. Romanticism exerted a strong influence on early nineteenth-century Russian authors, who were increasingly receptive to…
The Forest and the Steppe
The East Slavs, the ancestors of the Russians, first settled Europe's wooded northeastern periphery sometime in the latter half of the first millennium. Their notion of self and other would ultimately be defined by forest and steppe, and some of them eventually came to pay tribute to the Khazars that controlled the region around the lower Volga River from the seventh through the ninth centuries. The Khazars profited from commerce with various tra…
Missionary Orientology
All the Tsar's Men: Russia's General Staff and the Fate of Empire, 1898-1914
Taline Ter Minassian, Reginald Teague-Jones. Au service secret de l’Empire britannique
As if to distract from its own sanguinary excesses, many of the twentieth century’s more repressive regimes took great care to establish a martyrology to inspire the masses. Thus the Third Reich commemorated the assassinated SA-activist Horst Wessel with its second anthem, Mao’s China celebrated “Sister” Jiang Zhuyun with an opera, and every Soviet schoolchild was well acquainted with the story of Pavlik Morozov, the teenager who was murdered by …
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