| ID | 115231 |
| Title Proper | Liberalism and nationalism in Russia. Boris Chicherin as a modernist nationalist |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Rabow-Edling, Susanna |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article investigates the link between nationalism and liberalism in Russia by looking at the way the leading spokesman of early Russian liberalism, Boris Chicherin, combined liberal ideas with notions of nation-building and the idea of the nation as a modernising phenomenon. The article argues that the young Chicherin, at least in the formative years of the 1850s, had an instrumental approach to liberalism. Liberalism served a specific purpose - to integrate the people and shape a community of active citizens so that Russia could modernise. Chicherin was concerned with the formation of a modern nation-state rather than the establishment of popular rule or political rights. In this sense, his thinking fits well into what, in the context of the Ottoman Empire, has been called modernist nationalism. |
| `In' analytical Note | Nations and Nationalism Vol. 18, No.4; Oct 2012: p.701-718 |
| Journal Source | Nations and Nationalism Vol. 18, No.4; Oct 2012: p.701-718 |
| Key Words | Boris Chicherin ; Civic Nationalism ; Liberalism ; Modernisation ; Nation - Building ; Russia |