Imagining Russian regions : subnational identity and civil society in nineteenth-century Russia /

"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 Russia...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith-Peter, Susan Joan, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Series:Russian history and culture ; 19
Subjects:
1800-1917
Regionalism > Russia > History > 19th century.
Group identity > Russia > History.
Civil society > Russia > History.
Serfs > Emancipation > Russia.
Central-local government relations > Russia > History > 19th century.
Régionalisme > Russie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Identité collective > Russie > Histoire.
Société civile > Russie > Histoire.
Serfs > Affranchissement > Russie.
Relations gouvernement central-collectivités locales > Russie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Central-local government relations
Civil society
Group identity
Regionalism
Rural conditions
Serfs > Emancipation
Russia > History > 1801-1917.
Russia > Rural conditions > 19th century.
Russie > Histoire > 1801-1917.
Russia
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The imperial logic of Russian space
  • The era of small reforms: the rise of a non-noble provincial identity under Nicholas I
  • What should rural Russia be?: the shift from paternalism to abolitionism among the Russian nobility, 1830s-50s
  • Former serfs and masters united by shared property rights: Hegel and the case for a new rural civil society
  • 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.

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