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Article: An Imperial rights regime: law and citizenship in the Russian empire.
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- Kritika
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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What difference can empire make to citizenship? In this article, I address the question of imperial citizenship in Russia through an exploration of imperial law, rights, courts, and their use by lowly members of the polity. I want to enable a more expansive notion of citizenship that includes polities based on differentiated but activated rights and to escape from a framework that privileges the "nation-state"--a short-lived phenomenon but a long-lived construct. I challenge the notion that citizenship--both as a practice and a construct--need be restricted to polities that declare themselves founded on the principles of shared nationality and uniform rights--based on ...