After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires

by Karen Barkey, Mark Von Hagen

This volume brings together a group of some of the most outstanding scholars in political science, history, and historical sociology to examine the causes of imperial decline and collapse of the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg empires.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

212 pages, Hardcover

First published March 13, 1997

Reviews

[Tolga Yonetsel]

At Part Two, "Thinking About Consequences of Empire," builds a comparative framework for examining the process of post-imperial nation-state building. But sociologist writer of Ottoman part who was concentrated on 1950’s instead of post imperial period was a failure. An Islamic and political sociologist writer criticised secular Republic without any concrete material, instead of concentrating many other sociological situations like ending of Caliph or huge numbers of immigrants of Turks, Muslims, Armenians, non-Muslim Turks, Muslim Greeks, etc and their very important effects to all social dimensions of all countries around after Ottoman. If this book was about an aproach to Islam, sects and social Islam during 1940’s this article of Şerif Mardin is much more interesting and relevant.

[Göksal Caner Malatya]

20. yüzyılda çöken büyük çok uluslu imparatorlukların (Osmanlı, Rus, Habsburg) yıkılış dinamiklerini ve ulus-devletlere parçalanış süreçlerini karşılaştırmalı olarak inceleyen değerli bir akademik derlemedir. İmparatorlukların bıraktığı kurumsal mirasın, etnik çatışmaların ve otoriter devlet geleneklerinin ardıl devletlere (Türkiye, SSCB/Rusya vd.) nasıl devrolduğunu sosyolojik ve tarihsel bir perspektifle açıklar. Bölgesel milliyetçiliklerin ve devlet şiddetinin köklerini anlamak için iyi bir burjuva/akademik kaynaktır.

[Duncan Maccoll]

Book required to study for UK Open University's A326 'Empire: 1492-1975'