Teoksessa lähestytään venäläisen keisarillisen identiteetin juuria ja ilmenemismuotoja 1800-luvulla monista eri lähtökodista: myyteistä, kirjallisuudesta, vähemmistökansoista ja jopa ohranan näkökulmasta. Kirja käsittelee myös Venäjän vallankumouksen vaikutusta venäläiseen identiteettiin, joka on hakenut muotoaan toisaalta keisarikuntana, toisaalta eurooppalaisena kansakuntana.
Artikkelit:
C. J. Chulos and J. Remy, Introduction: Russian Imperial Identity
Elena Hellberg-Hirn, Imperial Places and Stories
Mari Mäki-Petäys, Warrior and Saint: The Changing Image of Alexander Nevsky as an Aspect of Russian Imperial Identity
Iain Lauchlan, Separate Realm? The Okhrana Myth and Imperial Russian "Otherness" 1881-1917
Eliisa Vähä, Out of Oppression into Brotherhood: The Meaning of the October Revolution as Part of National Identity in Soviet History Textbook
C. J. Chulos, Stories of the Empire: Myth, Ethnography, and Village Origin Legends in 19th Century Russia Hubertus
Jahn, Charity and National Identity in Late Imperial Russia Timo Piirainen, The Sisyphean Mission: New National Identity in Post-Communist Russia
Johannes Remy, The Ukrainophile Intelligentsia and Its Relation to the Russian Empire in the Beginning of Reign of Alexander II (1856-63)
Marina Vituhnovskaja, Karelians in the Context of Russian Imperial Policy during the Pre-Revolutionary Decade
Krista Berglund, Apocalyptic and Nihilistic Russia? The Values of Imperial Russia and the Russian Revolution in Nikolai Berdyaev's Interpretation of Dostoevsky's "The Possessed"
Geoffrey Hosking, Imperial Identies in Russia: Some Concluding Thoughts Index
Editors: Chris J. Chulos, Johannes Remy
The articles consider how the ideas of empire and nation have led to national identities that both encouraged interaction with the rest of Europe and have erected obstacles to freedom and full membership in Western European tradition.
As Russia's rulers have searched for meaningful ways to unify their diverse and widely scatteres population, they have resorted to the twin ideas of empire and nation. In medieval times, the Orthodox population of Rus' rallied around warrior saints who led the strategic and spiritual fight against infidels and heretics. Peter the Great turned Russia away from the middle ages when he created the image of a modern secular state to which all subjects of the realm were to be subordinated, regarless of ethnisity or creed. The last tsars attempted to restore Orthodoxy and ethnicity to their imperial model which the early Soviets replaced with the ideals of multiculturalism and multinationalism. The articles in this book consider how the ideas of empire and nation have led to national identities that both encouraged interaction with the rest of Europe and have erected obstacles to freedom and full membership in the Western European tradition.
Articles:
C. J. Chulos and J. Remy, Introduction: Russian Imperial Identity
Elena Hellberg-Hirn, Imperial Places and Stories
Mari Maki-Petays, Warrior and Saint: The Changing Image of Alexander Nevsky as an Aspect of Russian Imperial Identity
Iain Lauchlan, Separate Realm? The Okhrana Myth and Imperial Russian "Otherness" 1881-1917
Eliisa Vaha, Out of Oppression into Brotherhood: The Meaning of the October Revolution as Part of National Identity in Soviet History Textbook
C. J. Chulos, Stories of the Empire: Myth, Ethnography, and Village Origin Legends in 19th Century Russia Hubertus
Jahn, Charity and National Identity in Late Imperial Russia Timo Piirainen, The Sisyphean Mission: New National Identity in Post-Communist Russia
Johannes Remy, The Ukrainophile Intelligentsia and Its Relation to the Russian Empire in the Beginning of Reign of Alexander II (1856-63)
Marina Vituhnovskaja, Karelians in the Context of Russian Imperial Policy during the Pre-Revolutionary Decade
Krista Berglund, Apocalyptic and Nihilistic Russia? The Values of Imperial Russia and the Russian Revolution in Nikolai Berdyaev's Interpretation of Dostoevsky's "The Possessed"
Geoffrey Hosking, Imperial Identies in Russia: Some Concluding Thoughts Index
Editors: Chris J. Chulos, Johannes Remy
The articles consider how the ideas of empire and nation have led to national identities that both encouraged interaction with the rest of Europe and have erected obstacles to freedom and full membership in Western European tradition.
As Russia's rulers have searched for meaningful ways to unify their diverse and widely scatteres population, they have resorted to the twin ideas of empire and nation. In medieval times, the Orthodox population of Rus' rallied around warrior saints who led the strategic and spiritual fight against infidels and heretics. Peter the Great turned Russia away from the middle ages when he created the image of a modern secular state to which all subjects of the realm were to be subordinated, regarless of ethnisity or creed. The last tsars attempted to restore Orthodoxy and ethnicity to their imperial model which the early Soviets replaced with the ideals of multiculturalism and multinationalism. The articles in this book consider how the ideas of empire and nation have led to national identities that both encouraged interaction with the rest of Europe and have erected obstacles to freedom and full membership in the Western European tradition.
Articles:
C. J. Chulos and J. Remy, Introduction: Russian Imperial Identity
Elena Hellberg-Hirn, Imperial Places and Stories
Mari Maki-Petays, Warrior and Saint: The Changing Image of Alexander Nevsky as an Aspect of Russian Imperial Identity
Iain Lauchlan, Separate Realm? The Okhrana Myth and Imperial Russian "Otherness" 1881-1917
Eliisa Vaha, Out of Oppression into Brotherhood: The Meaning of the October Revolution as Part of National Identity in Soviet History Textbook
C. J. Chulos, Stories of the Empire: Myth, Ethnography, and Village Origin Legends in 19th Century Russia Hubertus
Jahn, Charity and National Identity in Late Imperial Russia Timo Piirainen, The Sisyphean Mission: New National Identity in Post-Communist Russia
Johannes Remy, The Ukrainophile Intelligentsia and Its Relation to the Russian Empire in the Beginning of Reign of Alexander II (1856-63)
Marina Vituhnovskaja, Karelians in the Context of Russian Imperial Policy during the Pre-Revolutionary Decade
Krista Berglund, Apocalyptic and Nihilistic Russia? The Values of Imperial Russia and the Russian Revolution in Nikolai Berdyaev's Interpretation of Dostoevsky's "The Possessed"
Geoffrey Hosking, Imperial Identies in Russia: Some Concluding Thoughts Index
