Imagining Russian regions : subnational identity and civil society in nineteenth-century Russia
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Imagining Russian regions : subnational identity and civil society in nineteenth-century Russia
(Russian history and culture, v. 19)
Brill, c2018
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-313) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Maps
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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
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