CHILDREN OF RUS’: RIGHT-BANK UKRAINE AND THE INVENTION OF A RUSSIAN NATION

Book ID/图书代码： 03360013B65925

English Summary/英文概要： In Children of Rus’, Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire’s last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest’s Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities.

Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire’s most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest’s culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire.

Exploring why and how the empire’s southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在《俄罗斯的孩子》里，费斯•西里斯重现了沙皇帝国和它西南边疆被逐渐淡忘的历史篇章。第聂伯河的右岸或西侧——今天位于独立国家乌克兰的心脏——是俄罗斯帝国的最后收购的领土之一，仅在十八世纪后期被吞并过。然而，在漫长的19世纪中，这个新收购的区域和莫斯科和圣彼得堡只相距一千公里。圣彼得堡诞生了一个强大的俄罗斯民族主义运动。西南地区的俄罗斯民族主义者自称将恢复东斯拉夫人的古老习俗，试图让边疆的普通居民加入东正教， 并减少他们非正统少数民族的影响。

乌克兰左右两岸似乎不大可能滋养俄罗斯民族主义的想象。这是帝国最多元化的角落，它的居民很少讲俄语作为母语，或认同俄罗斯的内政文化。然而，就像希利斯所展示的，十九世纪末以来，俄罗斯民族主义者在西南文化和社会教育方面建立了强大的立足点；二十世纪的第一个十年里，他们巩固了在当地群众中的政治领导地位。到1910年，圣彼得堡官员的帮助下，右岸积极分子开阔他们的视野，将目光投向边疆以外，希望向整个帝国传播他们的国有化议程。

本书探索了帝国的西南边疆为何以及如何诞生最有组织性，政治上最成功的的俄罗斯民族主义运动，希利斯对沙皇制度下的国家与社会关系提出了一个大胆的新解释，并重新定义了周边区域的作用，它试图定义俄罗斯人民及其国家的本质特征。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：“在《俄罗斯的孩子》里，费斯•西里斯单独定义了”小俄罗斯“意识形态，它既不是’乌克兰’（虽然有时与它重叠）也不是’中央集权，皇权’（虽然有时与俄罗斯的爱国主义结盟）。她说这个活动不是一个完整的组织，而是至少被分成三个不同的群体：激进，自由和保守。希利斯很好的记录了这些群体从19世纪60年代到杜马时期的发展，并很好地展示了政府对这三个地方和更高水平的暧昧态度。”——西奥多，南伊利诺伊卡本代尔大学，《从同化到反犹太主义》的作者：1850-1914年波兰的“犹太问题”

“在这本优秀的《俄罗斯的孩子》里，西里斯探讨了对“小俄罗斯“而言的命运，俄罗斯西南（基辅及其周边地区）在俄罗斯帝国所扮演的特定身份和作用，俄罗斯国家项目以及随后乌克兰的国家项目。这本书涵盖了19世纪30年代的俄罗斯内战，这使得希利斯追踪几个重要的智力和政治潮流。这是一本精心编写的书，有着丰富以及有说服力的资源。它会吸引研究俄罗斯帝国历史和民族主义以及十九世纪和二十世纪早期欧洲历史的学者们。”——彼得，宾夕法尼亚大学，《制造战争，锻造革命》的作者：1914-1921年俄罗斯的连续危机。

"In Children of Rus’, Faith Hillis establishes the separate identity of a ’Little Russian’ ideology that was neither ’Ukrainian’ (though sometimes overlapping with it) nor ’centralizing, imperial’ (though sometimes allying with Russian patriotism). The activists she describes are not a monolithic organization but are split into at least three separate groups: radical, liberal, and conservative. Hillis well documents the development of these groups fro the 1860s through the Duma period and also does a good job of demonstrating the government’s ambiguous attitude toward all three at the local and higher levels."—Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, author of From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The "Jewish Question" in Poland, 1850–1914

"In the excellent Children of Rus’, Faith Hillis examines the fate of what she terms the ’little Russian idea,’ the belief that Russia’s Southwest (essentially Kiev and its surrounding region) had a particular identity and a particular role to play in the Russian imperial and then Russian national project—and, subsequently, the Ukrainian national project. The book spans the 1830s to the Russian Civil War, which allows Hillis to trace several important intellectual and political currents. It is a well-written and very well-organized work, one that relies on a broad and convincing source base. It should appeal broadly to scholars in Russian imperial history, as well as to scholars of nationalism and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European history."—Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania, author of Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921

About the Author/作者介绍： 费斯•西里斯是芝加哥大学俄罗斯历史系的助理教授

Faith Hillis is Assistant Professor of Russian History at The University of Chicago.

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