Imagining Russian Regions

Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35349-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Reihe: Russian History and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith-Peter, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Maps
Maps

Introduction: Imagining Russian Regions

1 The Imperial Logic of Russian Space

2 The Era of Small Reforms: The Rise of a Non-Noble Provincial Identity under Nicholas I

3 What Should Rural Russia Be?: The Shift from Paternalism to Abolitionism among the Russian Nobility, 1830s–50s

4 Former Serfs and Masters United by Shared Property Rights: Hegel and the Case for a New Rural Civil Society

5 Centralization and its Discontents: The Clash between the State and the Followers of the Hegelian Idea of Civil Society

Conclusion: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Smith-Peter, Ph.D. (2001), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Associate Professor of History at the College of Staten Island / City University of New York. She has published widely on topics related to Russian regions and civil society.