Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism
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Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism

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Examines the origins of Russian nationalism and its relationship to the West.

Susanna Rabow-Edling examines the first theory of the Russian nation, formulated by the Slavophiles in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, and its relationship to the West. Using cultural nationalism as a tool for understanding Slavophile thinking, she argues that a Russian national identity was not shaped in opposition to Europe in order to separate Russia from the West. Rather, it originated as an attempt to counter the feeling of cultural backwardness among Russian intellectuals by making it possible for Russian culture to assume a leading role in the universal progress of humanity. This reinterpretation of Slavophile ideas about the Russian nation offers a more complex image of the role of Europe and the West in shaping a Russian national identity.

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Table of contents

  1. Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. A Dual Crisis of Identity
  6. 2. The Problem of Imitation
  7. 3. Conceptions of the Nation
  8. 4. The Russian Enlightenment and the Westernizers
  9. 5. The Slavophile Notion of a Russian Enlightenment
  10. 6. Cultural Nationalism as a Project for Social Change
  11. 7. The Slavophile Project for Social Change
  12. Conclusion
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index