Window on the East: national and imperial identities in late tsarist Russia
Окно на Восток: национальная и имперская идентичности в позднецарской России
2002-02-01
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"Robert P. Geraci presents an original account of both the politics and the lived experience of diversity in a society whose ethnic complexity has long been downplayed. For centuries, Russians have defined their country as both a multinational empire and a homogeneous nation-state in the making, and have alternately embraced and repudiated the East or Asia as fundamental to Russia's identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Key Findings
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Russian identity was constructed simultaneously as belonging to a multinational empire and to an emerging homogeneous nation-state.
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Russia’s relationship with the East or Asia was alternately embraced and rejected as a defining element of national identity.
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The account challenges longstanding portrayals that downplay the ethnic complexity of Russian society.
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The work examines how late tsarist Russia negotiated ethnic diversity through both political structures and everyday lived experience.
Research Object
late tsarist Russian society, understood as a multinational empire and emerging homogeneous nation-state
Research Subject
the politics and lived experience of ethnic diversity, and the shifting acceptance and rejection of the East or Asia in Russian national and imperial identities
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