Alexei Miller - Between Local and Inter-Imperial – Russian Imperial History in Search of Scope and Paradigm

The crucial suggestions for theoretical and methodological analysis of ethnicity and nationalism can be found in the article “Between Local and Inter-Imperial – Russian Imperial History in Search of Scope and Paradigm”.[1] The paper sets the major task of researcher as follows: “Identify those participating in interaction and to understand the logic of their behavior, reconstruct the context of interaction as fully as possible.”[2]
[1]Alexei Miller. Between Local and Inter-Imperial – Russian Imperial History in Search of Scope and Paradigm. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 5, 1, Winter, 2004.
[2]Ibid., 15.