{"id":10591,"date":"2023-07-18T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T11:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=10591"},"modified":"2025-02-01T23:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T23:05:40","slug":"russias-enclosure-borders-and-the-caucasus-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=10591","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Enclosure: Borders and the Caucasus Link"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Speaker: <\/strong>Paul W. Werth, Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date & Time:<\/strong> Monday, July 24th, at 7pm Tbilisi time, (11am US eastern time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration required: bit.ly\/44Kz0cH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia\u2019s border is the longest in the world, and like everything else it has a history. \u201cRussia\u2019s Enclosure\u201d aspires to provide that history by investigating the making of boundaries in Russia and the USSR across three continents, from the earliest stages of boundary-making through the present. The Caucasus region represents a comparatively short segment of that border, but one of great geopolitical and cultural significance. It was here that three large Eurasian states intersected and where, in the nineteenth century, new borders had to be drawn\u2014with significant implications for the economic, social, and religious life of the region\u2019s residents. Based on a foray into archives in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia, this talk offers the author\u2019s initial attempts to make sense of this story, with reference to diverse historical actors and matters of geography, infrastructure, and institutional cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul W. Werth is Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin earlier this year. He has written about religious minorities, toleration, and imperial rule and is the author, most recently, of 1837: Russia\u2019s Quiet Revolution <\/em>(2021). As an ARISC fellow, he is researching the history of the borders of Russia and the USSR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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