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Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral European History

ISBN10: 9004353496
ISBN13: 9789004353497
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 12 2017
Pages: 330
Weight: 2.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Susan Smith-Peter shows how ideas of civil society encouraged the growth of subnational identity in Russia before 1861. Adam Smith and G.W.F. Hegel's ideas of civil society influenced Russians and the resulting plans to stimulate the growth of civil society also formed subnational identities.
It challenges the view of the provinces as empty space held by Nikolai Gogol, who rejected the new non-noble provincial identity and welcomed a noble-only district identity. By 1861, these non-noble and noble publics would come together to form a multi-estate provincial civil society whose promise was not fulfilled due to the decision of the government to keep the peasant estate institutionally separate.

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