Books, Etc.
Online Links to Faculty Publications

Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making Of A Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 - Amazon

Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia - Amazon

From frontier to empire: Russia's southern frontier and formation of the empire, 16th-18th centuries - Amazon

Not by word alone: Missionary policies and religious conversion in Russia, 1550-1780s - Amazon

Constructing boundaries and identities in the south-east of the Russian empire, 16th-18th centuries - Amazon

Of Christianity, enlightenment and colonialism: Russia in the North Caucasus before the nineteenth century - Amazon

Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600-1771 - Amazon

Michael Khodarkovsky

Ph.D. University of Chicago Specialization: Russian History

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Research:

Early Modern and Imperial Russian History

Publications:

Books:

Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600-1771 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992)

Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia, editor with Robert Geraci (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001).

Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002).

Imperial Visions, Policies and Impacts: Russian and Ottoman Empires Compared, 1500-1800 (current project)

A History of the North Caucasus (current project)

Selected Articles:

"From Frontier to Empire: The Concept of the Frontier in Russia, 16-18th Centuries," in International Conference "The Role of the Frontier in Russian History, 8-18th Centuries," Chicago, May 29-31, 1992. Russian History 19 (1992): 115-128.

"The Stepan Razin Uprising: Was It a 'Peasant War'?" Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 42, no. 1 (1994): 1-19.

"La conquête de l'Est" in Autrement "Les Sibériens" 78 (1994): 64-79

"Not by Word Alone: Missionary Policies and Religious Conversion in Early Modern Russia" Comparative Studies in Society and History 38, no. 2 (1996): 267-93.

"Ignoble Savages and Unfaithful Subjects: Constructing non-Christian Identities in Early Modern Russia," in The Russian Orient: Imperial Strategies and Oriental Encounters, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997), pp. 8-32.

"V korolevstve krivykh zerkal: Osnovy rossiiskoi politiki na Severnom Kavkaze do zavoevatel'nykh voin 19 veka," in Chechnya i Rossia: Obshchestva i gosudarstva (Moscow, 1999), pp. 19-39.

"Of Christianity, Enlightenment and Colonialism: Russia in the North Caucasus, 1550-1800," The Journal of Modern History 71, no. 2 (1999): 394-430.

"Russia's Colonial Frontiers in the Eighteenth Century: From the North Caucasus to Central Asia" in Extending the Borders of Russian History, Festschrift for Alfred Rieber (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2002).

Teaching:

"Western Civilization and the World to the Seventeenth Century," "The Evolution of the Western Ideas since the Seventeenth Century," "Russian History I: Building the Empire," "Imperial Russian History, 1700-1917," "Soviet History: Between the Revolutions, from October 1917 to August 1991;" Graduate seminars: "Nationalism and the Soviet Union," "Comparative Frontiers", "Comparative Empires and Colonialisms", "A History of the Caucasus and Central Asia", "Islam in Russia".

Office Phone:

(773) 508-2775

E-mail address:

mkhodar@luc.edu

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