The Fall of an Empire, the Birth of a Nation: National Identities in Russia

ISBN-13: 9781138711600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 236 str.

Chris J. Chulos; Timo Piirainen

Opis

This title was first published in 2000:  A collection of articles by Russian and Western experts on nationalism. The objective of the work is to give an overview of the new Russian identity-building and of the historical continuities that lie behind this ongoing process.

Spis treści

1: Introduction; 2: Origin and Power: Russian National Myths and the Legitimation of Social Order; 3: Orthodox Identity at Russian Holy Places; 4: In Quest of Values: Religion and Nationality in the Early Soviet Period; 5: Nationalism and Internationalism: How did the Bolsheviks Cope with National Sentiments?; 6: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Contemporary Russian Ethnography; 7: Russia in the 1990s: Manifestations of a Conservative Backlash Philosophy; 8: The Problem of Identities in the Baltic Countries; 9: The Fall of an Empire, the Birth of a Nation: Perceptions of the New Russian National Identity; 10: Russia’s Minorities and the Soviet Legacy

O autorze

Chris Chulos, Timo Piirainen