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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968048503321

Autore

Rabow-Edling Susanna

Titolo

Slavophile thought and the politics of cultural nationalism / / Susanna Rabow-Edling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006

ISBN

9780791482162

0791482162

9781429417327

1429417323

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in national identities

Disciplina

320.54/0947/09034

Soggetti

Slavophilism - Russia - History - 19th century

Russians - Ethnic identity

Nationalism - Russia - History - 19th century

Russia Intellectual life 1801-1917

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- A dual crisis of identity -- The problem of imitation -- Conceptions of the nation -- The Russian enlightenment and the Westernisers -- The Slavophile notion of a Russian enlightenment -- Cultural nationalism as a project for social change -- The Slavophile project for social change -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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.