Racism in Modern Russia

In October 2013, one of the largest anti-migrant riots took place in Moscow. Clashes and arrests continued late into the night. Some in the crowd, which grew to several thousand people, could be heard chanting “Russia for the Russians” with their animus directed towards dark-skinned labor migrants from the southern border. The slogan “Russia for the Russians” is not a recent invention. It first gained notoriety in the very last years of the tsarist regime, appealing primarily to individuals drawn to the radical right. Analyzing a wide range of printed and visual sources, Racism in Modern Russia marks the first serious attempt to understand the history of racism over a span of 150 years. A brilliant examination of the complexities of racism, Eugene M. Avrutin’s panoramic book asks powerful questions about inequality and privilege, denigration and belonging, power and policy, and the complex historical links between race, whiteness, and geography. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com

Racism in Modern Russia

In October 2013, one of the largest anti-migrant riots took place in Moscow. Clashes and arrests continued late into the night. Some in the crowd, which grew to several thousand people, could be heard chanting “Russia for the Russians” with their animus directed towards dark-skinned labor migrants from the southern border. The slogan “Russia for the Russians” is not a recent invention. It first gained notoriety in the very last years of the tsarist regime, appealing primarily to individuals drawn to the radical right. Analyzing a wide range of printed and visual sources, Racism in Modern Russia marks the first serious attempt to understand the history of racism over a span of 150 years. A brilliant examination of the complexities of racism, Eugene M. Avrutin’s panoramic book asks powerful questions about inequality and privilege, denigration and belonging, power and policy, and the complex historical links between race, whiteness, and geography. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on www.bloomsburycollections.com

Strong Doping of the n-Optical Confinement Layer for Increasing Output Power of High- Power Pulsed Laser Diodes in the Eye Safe Wavelength Range

Abstract—An analytical model for internal optical losses at high power in a 1.5 μm laser diode with strong n-doping in the n-side of the optical confinement layer is created. The model includes intervalence band absorption by holes supplied by both current flow and two-photon absorption, as well as the direct two-photon absorption effect. The resulting losses are compared with those in an identical structure with a weakly doped waveguide, and shown to be substantially lower, resulting in a significant improvement in the output power and efficiency in the structure with a strongly doped waveguid

A legible people: Identification politics and Jewish accommodation in Tsarist Russia.

If in the eighteenth century Jews could be identified by their speech, clothing, and religious practices, then by the end of the nineteenth century these symbols of Jewishness were no longer as visible or distinct. How were Jews recognized as Jews, as differences between Jews and non-Jews diminished? This study analyzes the politics and problems of documenting Jewish identities in the western borderlands and certain regions of the interior provinces of the Russian Empire in the long nineteenth century. This study uses petitions and other forms of official correspondence written by and about Jews to analyze how Jews interacted with the bureaucracy, conceived of themselves as members of the empire, and made sense of the world around them. At the beginning of the nineteenth century an important shift occurred in documentary practice that serves as the point of departure for this study. If in the early modern period dress, badges, and headgear represented social status and religious identities, then in the modern period states made their populations legible by indirect means of registration, through censuses, passports, and vital statistics books. The bureaucratic preoccupation with recognition generated massive paper trails that became important tools by which the state guaranteed public safety and at the same time constrained individual freedoms. As an unprecedented number of individuals traveled across wide geographic terrains, government officials faced the dilemma of identifying individuals based on a series of documents that were often unreliable and poorly managed. Errors and various forms of irregularities hindered Jews' ability to participate in the civic order, as well as challenged the state's ability to control its territories and peoples. Documentation practices, however, not only constrained movement and facilitated government surveillance, but linked individuals to the body social. Ordinary and elite Jews alike began to gradually embrace administrative procedures and regulations in their daily lives by petitioning to settle questions of record keeping and documentation. One of the most important consequences of the documentation practices was the inculcation of a new participatory ethos and commitment to record keeping, as well as the gradual involvement of Jews in this record-keeping enterprise.Ph.D.Ethnic studiesEuropean historyModern historySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/124617/2/3150151.pd