Crisis and Transformation of an Old Regime: Circulation of Ideologies and Institutions between Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1768-1774

该项目旨在研究俄罗斯和奥斯曼帝国之间的思想交流和体制框架，重点是1768-1774年的奥斯曼帝国-俄罗斯战争。该项目的重点是奥斯曼帝国的东正教基督徒人口，以及他们与奥斯曼帝国统治精英的关系。该项目将利用土耳其和希腊档案馆中的奥斯曼语、土耳其语和希腊语材料进行，项目将分为三个阶段。第一个将集中在1768年和更早的奥斯曼帝国统治精英身上，以确定不同网络对战争问题和战争合法性的处理方法。这一阶段将把奥斯曼帝国关于战争的论点放在奥斯曼帝国和更广泛的欧洲背景下，强调思想的流通。第二阶段将集中于奥斯曼帝国和俄国人在战争期间的宣传，并比较他们为了说服不同的民众支持他们的帝国计划而使用的论点。第三阶段将讨论战争的后果，重点是君士坦丁堡东正教大主教。第三阶段的目标将是质疑制度框架是否具有可比性，以及它们是否在两个帝国之间“循环”。

This project aims to study the circulation of ideas and institutional frameworks between the Russian and Ottoman Empires focusing on the Ottoman-Russian War of 1768-1774. The project’s focus is the Ottoman Empire’s Orthodox Christian populations and their relationship to the Ottoman ruling elite. This project will be carried out using material in Ottoman Turkish and Greek located in the archives in Turkey and Greece.There will be three phases to the project. The first one will concentrate on the Ottoman ruling elite in 1768 and earlier to determine the approach of different networks to the question of war and of the war’s legitimacy. This phase will situate Ottoman arguments for war both in their Ottoman and in the wider European context emphasizing the circulation of ideas. The second phase will focus on the propaganda by the Ottomans and Russians during the war and compare the arguments they used in order to convince different populations to ally with their imperial projects. The third phase will discuss the aftermath of the war focusing on the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople. The aim of the third phase will be to question whether institutional frameworks are comparable and whether they “circulate” between the two empires.