Russia

Name: Russia
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ISBN: 9780340677056

ISBN-10: 0340677058

ISBN-13: 9780340677056

Edition: 2001

Authors: Vera Tolz

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The question of national identity is central to the future of Russia. In this analysis, which spans three centuries of Russian cultural history, Vera Tolz places post-communist Russia in a broad historical background. She 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 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…

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List price: $74.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 3/31/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Vera Tolz is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester



List of illustrations


General Editor's Preface


Acknowledgements



The territory of the Moscow Principality in the early sixteenth century



The Russian empire at its greatest extent


Introduction: Russian identity between empire and the West



Laying the foundation



The reign of Peter the Great: the beginning of modern Russia



Peter's legacy: the emergence of intellectual debate



Russian identity and the 'other'



Russia and the West



Russia and the East



Defining Russian identity



Imaginative geography: Russian empire as a Russian nation-state



Imaginative ethnography: who are the Russians?



Ukraine in the Russian national consciousness



Russia and the Russians today



National identity and nation-building after the USSR


Conclusions: Russian tradition and the post-communist concept of nationhood


Selected bibliography


Index