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

by Edith W. Clowes

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004353496
• ISBN13: 9789004353497
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"