Information and Empire
Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850
From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change?
Information and Empire brings together a range of essays to address this complex question. It examines communication networks such as the postal service and the circulation of news, as well as the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informe...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 4 juillet 2018
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-0968-1
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2017
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-373-5
Nombre de pages : vi + 438
Simon Franklin
IntroductionI. Map-making
Valerie Kivelson
1. Early Mapping: The Tsardom in ManuscriptAleksei Golubinskii
Elizabeth Harrison (trad.)
2. New Technology and the Mapping of Empire: The Adoption of the AstrolabeII. International news and post
Daniel C. Waugh et Ingrid Maier
3. Muscovy and the European Information Revolution: Creating the Mechanisms for Obtaining Foreign NewsIII. News and post in Russia
Alison K. Smith
6. Information and Efficiency: Russian Newspapers, ca. 1700–1850IV. Institutional knowledge and communication
Elena Korchmina
9. What Could the Empress Know About Her Money? Russian Poll Tax Revenues in the Eighteenth CenturyEkaterina Basargina
Thomas Rowley (trad.)
10. Communication and Official Enlightenment: The Journal of the Ministry of Public Education, 1834–1855V. Information and public display
From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change?
Information and Empire brings together a range of essays to address this complex question. It examines communication networks such as the postal service and the circulation of news, as well as the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its people. It also considers the inscription of space from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people.
Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a fi eld of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in Russian Studies, but also for students and anyone interested in the history of information and communications.
Simon Franklin (dir.)
Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He has written widely on the history and culture of early Rus, Muscovy and Russia. Books includeThe Emergence of Rus 700–1200 (1996, with Jonathan Shepard),Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950–1300 (2002), and National Identity in Russian Culture: an Introduction (2004, ed., with Emma Widdis). His recent research has focussed on the social and cultural history of technologies of the word in Russia in the late medieval and early modern periods (ca. 1450–1850).
Katherine Bowers (dir.)
EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research interest is nineteenthcentury Russian literature and cultural history, and she is currently working on a book about the influence of gothic fiction on Russian realism. Other publications include Russian Writers at the Fin de Siècle: The Twilight of Realism (2015, ed., with A. Kokobobo) and A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts (forthcoming 2018, eds., with C. Doak and K. Holland). From 2012–14 she was Research Associate on the project, “Information Technologies in Russia, 1450–1850”, led by Simon Franklin, and a Research Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.

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