LEADER 04442nam 2200721 450 001 9910823780603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6925-2 010 $a1-5017-1066-4 010 $a0-8014-6926-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801469268 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072587 035 $a(EBL)3138546 035 $a(OCoLC)922998441 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001059461 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11985579 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001059461 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11081481 035 $a(PQKB)10552315 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001505815 035 $a(OCoLC)865565851 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28811 035 $a(DE-B1597)478434 035 $a(OCoLC)885221694 035 $a(OCoLC)979622664 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801469268 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138546 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10812576 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683579 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138546 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072587 100 $a20130301d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChildren of Rus? $eright-bank Ukraine and the invention of a Russian nation /$fFaith Hillis 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-52297-9 311 $a0-8014-5219-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Little Russian idea and the invention of a Rus? nation -- The Little Russian idea in the 1860s -- The Little Russian idea and the imagination of Russian and Ukrainian nations -- Nationalizing urban politics -- Concepts of liberation -- Electoral politics and regional governance -- Nationalizing the empire -- The limits of the Russian nationalist vision. 330 $aIn Children of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River-which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine-was one of the Russian empire's last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest's Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities. Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire's most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest's culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire. Exploring why and how the empire's southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state. 606 $aNationalism$zUkraine$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aNationalism$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUkraine$xPolitics and government$y19th century 607 $aRussia$xPolitics and government$y1801-1917 607 $aUkraine$xRelations$zRussia 607 $aRussia$xRelations$zUkraine 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 676 $a320.540947 700 $aHillis$b Faith$01604716 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823780603321 996 $aChildren of Rus?$93929666 997 $aUNINA