Russia in the German Global Imaginary

Imperial Visions and Utopian Desires, 1905-1941

James E. Casteel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2016
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-6411-7 (ISBN)

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This book traces transformations in German views of Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, leading up to the disastrous German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Casteel shows how Russia figured in the imperial visions and utopian desires of a variety of Germans, including scholars, journalists, travel writers, government and military officials, as well as nationalist activists. He illuminates the ambiguous position that Russia occupied in Germans' global imaginary as both an imperial rival and an object of German power. During the interwar years in particular, Russia, now under Soviet rule, became a site onto which Germans projected their imperial ambitions and expectations for the future, as well as their worst anxieties about modernity. Casteel shows how the Nazis drew on this cultural repertoire to construct their own devastating vision of racial imperialism.

James E. Casteel is assistant professor at the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.06.2016
Reihe/Serie	Russian and East European Studies
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8229-6411-2 / 0822964112
ISBN-13	978-0-8229-6411-7 / 9780822964117
Zustand	Neuware