Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: Narodnost’ and Modernity in Imperial Russia

Knight, Nathaniel

doi:10.1057/9780230288126_3

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“…15Á16). By searching for the authentic and inherently noble qualities of the Russian folk, Slavophiles (among them Tolstoy, Dostoevskii and Tjutchev) originated and promoted the Russian version of the 'cult of people' among the gentry and educated circles (see Christoff, 1961Christoff, , 1972Cherniavsky, 1969;Knight, 2000;322 I. Zake Billington, 1958). On its basis, intellectuals engaged in political arguments against serfdom and asserted that the Russian people are different from Germans and other Western nations, and therefore cannot be governed by them.…”

Section: Borrowing and Resisting: Influences Of Russian And German Namentioning

confidence: 98%

Inventing Culture and Nation: Intellectuals and Early Latvian Nationalism

Zake¹

2007

National Identities

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The article argues that Latvian nationalism started out as a doctrine of cultural egalitarianism. This was due to the crucial role played by the emerging native intelligentsia, which came from peasant backgrounds and received education in Russian universities during the 1840s and 1850s. Using historical accounts and intellectuals' publications, it is shown that Latvian intelligentsia was influenced by the bourgeoning Russian and German nationalist ideas at the time, which it re-interpreted within traditional cultural context. To a large extent, these intellectuals created a national identity for themselves in order to claim an equal position among intellectual elites of other nations. These conclusions imply that it is necessary to study nationalisms as a part of not only social and economic, but also cultural, modernity.

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Section: Borrowing and Resisting: Influences Of Russian And German Namentioning

confidence: 98%

Inventing Culture and Nation: Intellectuals and Early Latvian Nationalism

Zake¹

2007

National Identities

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“…The emerging civil society contributed to the evolution of public perceptions of peoplehood and cultural distinctness. From the mid-19th century, the Russian intellectuals launched and advanced public debates about nationhood as the basis of state legitimacy (Bakhturina 2004, 5;Hirsch 2005;Karnishina 2011;Knight 2000). Academia provided for the elaboration of ethnonational categorizations in the framework of ethnographic studies (Hirsch 2005).…”

Section: The Background and Earlier Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nonterritorial Autonomy in Northern Eurasia: Rooted or Alien?

Osipov¹

2021

Nationalities Papers

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The article examines the ideas and arrangements referred to as nonterritorial autonomy (NTA) in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet states. Many scholars regard NTA as a theoretical breakthrough and as a way to drastically rearrange diversity policies. The author seeks to clarify whether NTA had been a groundbreaking innovation and an area of political contestations. Two short periods of NTA-related initiatives after 1917 and in the late 1980s–1990s may look like attempts (albeit ineffective) to replace the earlier forms of diversity governance. The author shows that the ideas of group societal separateness, differential treatment of individuals, group agency, and cohesiveness, as well as a group’s running of its internal affairs, were present in varying degrees in imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet governments’ thoughts and practices. Academia and civil society were also appropriating and developing these views, and group self-rule on a nonterritorial basis was their logical extension. However, the practical implementation was, in most cases, on a top-down basis, and group agency and self-rule were affirmed mostly rhetorically. The continuity of discourses and practices demonstrates that NTA was an integral part of “normal” and broad ethnopolitical developments across the major historic divides in Northern Eurasia.

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“…Nationality was grafted onto a pre-existing vocabulary, expressing a variety of concepts, many of which continued to be relevant even after nationality took hold. (Knight 2000, 42) The usual Slavic translation of the word for "nationality" at this time -narodnost -was itself problematic, as has been shown in studies on the place of nationalism and ethnicity in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (Knight 2000;Hirsch 2005). The word narodnost derives from the word narod, the translation of which in English is "people" or folk, similar to the translation of the German term volk.…”

Section: The First Censuses Of Bulgaria: Political Background and Intmentioning

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Counting citizens: the transfer and translation of census categories from the international statistical congresses to the principality of Bulgaria (1872–1888)

Lonergan

2018

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This paper examines the nineteenth-century census as an early information technology and a medium for the transnational exchange of ideas in the nineteenth century. In particular, it considers how the ideas discussed by the International Statistical Congresses were directly applied in the newly established kingdom of Bulgaria in the first censuses from 1881 to 1888. It then examines how the legacy of Ottoman rule and the categories of the nineteenth-century Ottoman censuses unconsciously influenced the first census of Bulgaria, despite the desire of the new rulers to mark a significant break with the past. It also demonstrates how the nationalist feeling in the multiethnic former territory of the Ottoman Empire influenced the seemingly neutral categories of the first census. These categories then began to produce an implicit representation of the ideal Bulgarian citizen and so started the process of exclusion of the Turkish-speaking or Muslim population from full membership of the new body politic.

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Ethnicity, Nationality and the Masses: Narodnost’ and Modernity in Imperial Russia

Cited by 61 publications

References 2 publications

Inventing Culture and Nation: Intellectuals and Early Latvian Nationalism

Inventing Culture and Nation: Intellectuals and Early Latvian Nationalism

Nonterritorial Autonomy in Northern Eurasia: Rooted or Alien?

Counting citizens: the transfer and translation of census categories from the international statistical congresses to the principality of Bulgaria (1872–1888)

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