An Empire of Others

Ethnographers helped to perceive, understand and to also to Russia s remarkable cultural diversity. This book focuses on the specific contexts as ethnographic knowledge was created in modern Russia, showing readers how tsarist and Soviet ethnographers simultaneously defined both their subjects and their own expertise over a roughly three hundred year period.

Roland Cvetkovski is assistant professor at the Department of Eastern European History in Cologne.

Alexis Hofmeister is research assistant and coordinates the project "Imperial Subjects" at the Department of History at the University of Basel (Switzerland).