Russia

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

The question of national identity is central to the future of Russia. This extensive analysis, spans three centuries of Russian cultural history to place post-communist Russia within a broad historical background. The author focuses on three ways of defining Russia and Russians: Russia as a counterpart to the West; Russians as creators of a unique multi-ethnic community; and Russians as members of the community of Eastern Slavs. She then demonstrates how these three perspectives have dominated the views of Russia in the modern era and traces their origins back to writers and historians in the eighteenth century. Combining a rich historical study with a rigorous analytical framework, the book is an essential tool for understanding contemporary Russia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-03-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:494 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Inventing the Nation
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780340677056

Utforska kategorier

Nationalism inom Samhälle och politik
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Vera Tolz is Professor of Russian Studies, University of Manchester.

Recensioner i media

'Russia: Inventing the nation by Vera Tolz makes a major contribution towards elucidating how Russians' own understanding of themselves has evolved over the past three centuries. Most previous Western histories have treated the Soviet Union as an irrelevant or regressive period in the evolution of Russian nationhood. Tolz "brings back the Soviet Union", not idealizing it but showing that it played its own paradoxical and ambivalent role.' Times Literary Supplement 'Russia, by Vera Tolz, is thoroughly researched and clearly written. Reading the book is illuminating...' History: Reviews of New Books. 'Although a volume so kaleidoscopic in content, so allusive in argument, and so multilayered in construction necessarily yields more to those familiar with the subject than it can to the novice, Tolz writes vigorously throughout, and readers at all levels of sophistication will have something to learn from her consistently interesting book.' Slavonica '[A] substantive and solid overview of the basic concepts and formative issues related to Russian nationalism...[A] valuable addition to the existing studies on these issues.' Slavic and East European Journal

Innehållsförteckning

Theories of nationalism and their applicability to the Russian case; forging the matrix of the Russian national idea; the Russian orthodox church; the main currents of Russian nationalism in the 19th and early 20th centuries; nationalism and the empire; Bolshevism and nationalism; nationalism and the demise of the USSR; Post-imerial Russia in search of new self definition; conclusion.