Review Symposium: Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires

Parvulescu, Anca; Boatcă, Manuela

doi:10.51391/trva.2023.05.07

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“…: 160). Approaching the Transylvanian region in the early twentieth century as an inter-imperial zone, Parvulescu and Boatcă (2022) contend that, through Doyle's framework, "Anti-imperial themes and structures become legible in relation not to one empire but to multiple conflicting empires vying for control in the region," allowing the authors to highlight the unequal degrees of inter-imperial agency seen through "the prism of a negotiation across empires" (ibid. : 8).…”

Section: Inter-imperiality In Post-imperial Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

A Country of White Lilies: Inter-Imperial Nation-Making and Development from the Russian Empire’s Periphery to Post-Ottoman Turkey

Bavbek,

Korhonen

2024

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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In this article, we investigate the reasons behind the puzzling enthusiastic reception of a book about Finland’s national development by Turkish nationalist intellectuals in the early Republic of Turkey. Published in Turkish in 1928, the developmental model laid out in Petrov’s The Country of White Lilies resonated with the Turkish intelligentsia and has remained a popular book in Turkey throughout the twentieth century, and even today. First, we compare the fictionalized developmental model presented by Petrov in his book with Finnish development under the Russian Empire, before its independence in 1917. Second, we show that this reception was largely based on a comparison of Turkey and Finland’s geopolitical positions in global imperial politics, and a constructed racial affinity between the two nations in the minds of Turkish readers. Third, we argue that this national developmental model served three ideological purposes; distancing the Turkish Republic from the Ottoman Empire, showing the developmental capacity of nations outside the linear and paternalistic developmental model proposed by Western European empires, and last, presenting a model that glosses over Ottoman-Turkish state violence and ethnic cleansing, as well as democratic processes, as irrelevant to considerations of progress and development. Finally, we discuss the implications of our study for re-evaluating the sociological literature on nation formation, largely taking its “model cases” (Krause 2021) from the Western European experience, through a more encompassing inter-imperial approach (Doyle 2014).

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Section: Inter-imperiality In Post-imperial Spacementioning

confidence: 99%