Susanna Rabow-Edling
Researcher at Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies; Faculty
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 16 95
- Mobile phone:
- +46 72 999 94 41
- E-mail:
- susanna.rabow-edling@ires.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Gamla Torget 3, 3 tr
- Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Associate Professor in Political Science and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. My main research interests are Russian political thought in the long nineteenth century, especially nationalism, liberalism, and imperialism, Russian America and women’s history.

Publications
Selection of publications
The First Russian Revolution. The Decembrist Revolt of 1825
Reaktion Books, 2025
A History of Russian Conservatism, from the 18th Century to the End of the 20th Century
Part of Contemporary Russian Conservatism. Problems, Paradoxes and Perspectives, p. 36-75, Brill Academic Publishers, 2019
Liberalism in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: State, Nation, Empire
Routledge, 2018
Married to the Empire: Three Governors' Wives in Russian America 1829-1864
University of Alaska Press, 2015
Liberalism and nationalism in Russia: Boris Chicherin as a modernist nationalist
Part of Nations and Nationalism, p. 701-718, 2012
The relevance of Kohn’s dichotomy to the Russian nineteenth-century concept of nationalism
Part of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, p. 560-578, 2008
Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism
State University of New York Press, 2006
Part of A Member of the Family: Russia’s Place in Europe in the Historical Imagination, 1789-1917, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
Recent publications
The First Russian Revolution. The Decembrist Revolt of 1825
Reaktion Books, 2025
Liberalism and Republicanism in Decembrist Political Thought
2024
New Research on the Decembrists
2024
The Uppsala Yearbook of Eurasian Studies III
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2022
Russian Conservatism: Managing Change under Permanent Revolution by Glenn Diesen
Part of Nordisk Østforum, 2021
All publications
Articles in journal
“Imperiella visioner och den koloniala erfarenheten av ryska Alaska i finländsk press 1809-1867”
Part of Ennen ja Nyt, 2017
The 150th Anniversary of the Sale of Russian Alaska
Part of Baltic Rim Economie Review, 2017
Liberalism and Nationalism in Russia
Part of Vestnik Permskogo Universiteta, 2014
From the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean: Three Governor’s Wives in Russian America
Part of History of Women in the Americas, 2013
The Decembrist Movement and the Spanish Constitution of 1812
Part of Historia Constitucional, p. 143-161, 2012
Liberalism and nationalism in Russia: Boris Chicherin as a modernist nationalist
Part of Nations and Nationalism, p. 701-718, 2012
Early Russian Liberalism and the Nation-State
Part of UCRS Working Paper, 2010
The relevance of Kohn’s dichotomy to the Russian nineteenth-century concept of nationalism
Part of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, p. 560-578, 2008
"The Decembrists and the Concept of a Civic Nation"
Part of Nationalities Papers, 2007
Part of Nationalities Papers, 2004
Books
The First Russian Revolution. The Decembrist Revolt of 1825
Reaktion Books, 2025
The Uppsala Yearbook of Eurasian Studies III
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2022
Liberalism in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: State, Nation, Empire
Routledge, 2018
Married to the Empire: Three Governors' Wives in Russian America 1829-1864
University of Alaska Press, 2015
Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism
State University of New York Press, 2006
Chapters in book
A History of Russian Conservatism, from the 18th Century to the End of the 20th Century
Part of Contemporary Russian Conservatism. Problems, Paradoxes and Perspectives, p. 36-75, Brill Academic Publishers, 2019
From Subjects to Citizens: Republicanism, Nationalism and Literary Decembrism
Part of The Decembrists in Ukraine, p. 240-255, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2012
Part of A Member of the Family: Russia’s Place in Europe in the Historical Imagination, 1789-1917, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
”Russia’s relationship to Europe in Slavophile thought”
Part of Russia and Europe: Putin’s Foreign Policy, Stockholm, 2002
Russia’s relationship to Europe in Slavophile thought
Part of Russia and Europe: Putin’s Foreign Policy, FHS, 2002
Conference papers
Liberalism and Republicanism in Decembrist Political Thought
2024
New Research on the Decembrists
2024
Visions of Political Representation and Citizenship in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia
2018
Imperial Visions in the Nineteenth-Century Finnish Press
2018
Perspectives on Political Representation in pre-Revolutionary Russia
2017
Imperiedrömmar i finländsk press
2017
Visions of Empire in the Finnish press
2017
Women as Representatives of Empire in the Colonization of Alaska
Part of Arktika: Istoriia i sovremennost, 2016
State and nation-building in the thought of the Westernizers
2016
National Imperialism in Russian Liberal Thought
2015
Nationalism and Imperialism in Russian pre-Revolutionary Liberal Thought
2015
Gender, Empire and the Civilizing Mission in Russian America
2014
2014
Married to the Empire: Three Governors’ Wives in Russian America
2013
Bilden av Sovjet under ubåtskrisen
2013
Textbooks and Identity in Russia and the Ukraine
2013
Women and empire in the Russian colonization of America
2012
Part of Pan-Nationalism in Europe and Asia 1880-1950: Geo-Political Utopias in Modern History, 2007
Slavophile Thought and the Moral Regeneration of the Nation
2007
The civic concept of the nation in Russian political thought
2006
“Republicanism, Nationalism and Literary Decembrism”
2006
2005
Nationalism in the East and the West
2004
Russian nationalism and its original relationship to the West
2003
”The notion of a Russian Enlightenment”
2000
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
Russian Conservatism: Managing Change under Permanent Revolution by Glenn Diesen
Part of Nordisk Østforum, 2021
Part of Comparativ. Zeitschrift fur Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 2019
Politics of Colonization. Russian Imperial Governance through the Institution of Marriage
Part of Baltic Worlds, 2019
Between Europe & Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism
Part of Slavic Review, p. 1038-1039, 2016
Part of Nordisk Östforum, 2010
Alexei Miller, The Romanov Empire and Nationalism, CEU Press (Budapest New York) 2008. p. 242.
Part of Journal of Slavic Military Studies, p. 151-152, 2009
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture, by Richard Pipes
Part of Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 2009
Letters from the Governor's wife. A view from Russian Alaska 1859-1862
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, 2007
Staten i högsta person-rysk självhärskarmakt enligt Nikolaj Karamzin 1811
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, 2006