Children of Rus' : Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation /
Hillis, Faith
Children of Rus' : Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation / Faith Hillis. - 1 online resource (348 p.) : 16 halftones, 4 maps
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: The Little Russian Idea and the Russian Empire -- 1. The Little Russian Idea and the Invention of a Rus′ Nation -- 2. The Little Russian Idea in the 1860s -- 3. The Little Russian Idea and the Imagination of Russian and Ukrainian Nations -- Part Two: The Urban Crucible -- 4. Nationalizing Urban Politics -- 5 Concepts of Liberation -- Part Three: Forging a Russian Nation -- 6. Electoral Politics and Regional Governance -- 7. Nationalizing the Empire -- 8. The Limits of the Russian Nationalist Vision -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
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In Children of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire’s last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest’s Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities.Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire’s most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest’s culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire.Exploring why and how the empire’s southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780801469268
10.7591/9780801469268 doi
Nationalism--History--Russia--19th century.
Nationalism--History--Ukraine--19th century.
History.
Political Science & Political History.
Soviet & East European History.
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
'Little Russian' identity. Russian Civil War. Russian History course. Russian History student. Russian History survey. Slavic and East European Journal. Slavic unity. Ukrainian national evolution. czarist history. eurasian history. eurasian studies. history of the tsarist empire. late Imperial Russia. late Imperial Russian history. nineteenth-century European history. russian czars. russian history. russian nationalism. russian political history. russian political science. russian studies. slavic studies. state-society relations under tsarism. tsarist history. twentieth-century European history. tzarist history. ukraine history. ukraine political history. ukrainian nationalism.
DK508.772 / .H55 2016
320.540947
Children of Rus' : Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation / Faith Hillis. - 1 online resource (348 p.) : 16 halftones, 4 maps
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: The Little Russian Idea and the Russian Empire -- 1. The Little Russian Idea and the Invention of a Rus′ Nation -- 2. The Little Russian Idea in the 1860s -- 3. The Little Russian Idea and the Imagination of Russian and Ukrainian Nations -- Part Two: The Urban Crucible -- 4. Nationalizing Urban Politics -- 5 Concepts of Liberation -- Part Three: Forging a Russian Nation -- 6. Electoral Politics and Regional Governance -- 7. Nationalizing the Empire -- 8. The Limits of the Russian Nationalist Vision -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In Children of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire’s last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest’s Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities.Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire’s most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest’s culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire.Exploring why and how the empire’s southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780801469268
10.7591/9780801469268 doi
Nationalism--History--Russia--19th century.
Nationalism--History--Ukraine--19th century.
History.
Political Science & Political History.
Soviet & East European History.
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
'Little Russian' identity. Russian Civil War. Russian History course. Russian History student. Russian History survey. Slavic and East European Journal. Slavic unity. Ukrainian national evolution. czarist history. eurasian history. eurasian studies. history of the tsarist empire. late Imperial Russia. late Imperial Russian history. nineteenth-century European history. russian czars. russian history. russian nationalism. russian political history. russian political science. russian studies. slavic studies. state-society relations under tsarism. tsarist history. twentieth-century European history. tzarist history. ukraine history. ukraine political history. ukrainian nationalism.
DK508.772 / .H55 2016
320.540947