Russian empire : space, people, power, 1700-1930 / edited by Jane Burbank, Mark von Hagen, and Anatolyi Remnev

Table of Contents: “…Changing conceptions of difference, assimilation, and faith in the Volga-Kama region, 1740-1870 / Paul Werth -- Thinking like an empire : estate, law, and rights in the early twentieth century / Jane Burbank -- From region to nation : the Don Cossacks, 1870-1920 / Shane O'Rourke -- Bandits and the state : designing a "traditional" culture of violence in the Russian Caucasus / Vladimir Bobrovnikov -- Representing "primitive communists" : ethnographic and political authority in early Soviet Siberia / Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov -- Institutions. …”