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This work traces the development of Russian national consciousness from the time of the reforms of Peter the Great in the early-18th century, when ideas of nation and nationalism first penetrated Russia, up until Russia's current post-imperial identity crisis. It looks at nation…
Tracing the development of Russian national consciousness from the time of the reforms of Peter the Great, to Russia's current post-imperial identity crisis, this text looks at nationalism both as an ideology and a movement.
The ways in which Russian national identity has been constructed through the efforts of intellectuals and politicians over a period of three hundred years is the subject of this new study. The focus falls on the three main ways of defining Russia and the Russians: Russia vis-a-v…