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Exceptional Subjects: Koreans, Settler Colonialism, and Imperial Subjecthood in the Russian Far East, 1860s–1917

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2020

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Sergey Glebov*
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Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tyumen State University, Russia; Smith College, Northampton, MA; Amherst College, Amherst, MA
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Abstract

This article traces debates and policies of the Russian imperial administrators toward the Korean population in the Far Eastern provinces of the Russian Empire. Koreans were initially treated as de facto members of the peasant estate, and in the 1890s many were granted the status of Russian subjects. Yet the rise of settler colonialism and a nationalizing empire from the 1880s, and especially after the Russian revolution of 1905, complicated the issue of Korean subjecthood and led to policies that excluded Koreans from the regulations normally applicable to peasants, such as the right to increased land allotments. At the same time, the neotraditionalist approach to the management of difference in the empire was still present in the 1910s, albeit never clearly articulated to compete with the nationalizing idiom.

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Russian EmpireKoreansRussian Far Eastcolonialismimperial subjecthood
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 49 , Issue 6 , November 2021 , pp. 1065 - 1081
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