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