The Ministry of Asiatic Russia
The Colonial Office That Never Was But Might Have Been
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4209192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Willard Sunderland (0009-0005-0429-9796, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 120-150 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0037677900016727 |
| OpenAlex | W2586945938 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 74 |
The late tsarist state was a colonial empire, Willard Sunderland argues, yet it never established a colonial ministry like the other colonial empires of the era. Sunderland asks why this was the case and proposes that, while there are many explanations for Russia's apparent uniqueness in institutional terms, historians should also consider how the country's institutional development in fact approximated western and broader international models. The late imperial government indeed never ruled through a colonial ministry, but an office of this sort-a Ministry of Asiatic Russia-might have been created if World War I and the revolution had not intervened. Sunderland sees the embryo of this possibility in the Resettlement Administration, which emerged as a leading center of Russian technocratic colonialism by the turn of the 1900s
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |