New Serbia and the Origins of the Eastern Question, 1751-55
A Habsburg Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3416587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harvey L Dyck (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Russian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/128731 |
| OpenAlex | W2329415960 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In 1751 Empress Elizabeth Petrovna established New Serbia as a major defense and settlement initiative in a thinly populated area along the southern Ukrainian frontier. This initiative, which launched Imperial Russia's first centrally planned colonization of its southern steppe,1 prefigured Catherine II's later expansion to the Black Sea. But its immediate effect, in the years 1751 to 1755, was to strain Austro-Russian and Turkish-Russian relations and to cause a major international crisis. The story of this crisis is worth examining primarily because it helped crystallize key features of the explosive Eastern Question. This side of the crisis has, however, generally been ignored, as have its diplomatic aspects, because the Russian government finally drew back from the New Serbian adventure before it could cause a war. Austrian state papers document this incident in detail and illuminate its broader significance as an important harbinger of change in East European relations
Ancient history · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Artificial Intelligence · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Computer Science · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2025 (44) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |