It is widely assumed that the "nonclassical" nature of the Russian empire and its equally "nonclassical" modernity made Russian intellectuals immune to the raci

This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally

The cultural phenomenon of exhibiting non-European people in front of the European audiences in the 19th and 20th century was concentrated in the metropolises i

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This interaction produced powerful,

Is the concept of "race" applicable to Russia and the Soviet Union? Citing the idea of Russian exceptionalism, many would argue that in the nineteenth and twent