Imagining Russian Regions(English, Hardcover, Smith-Peter Susan)

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Imagining Russian Regions(English, Hardcover, Smith-Peter Susan) is written by Smith-Peter Susan and published by Brill. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004353496 (ISBN 10) and 9789004353497 (ISBN 13).

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 space held by Nikolai Gogol, who rejected the new non-noble provincial identity and welcomed a noble-only district identity. By 1861, these non-noble and noble publics would come together to form a multi-estate provincial civil society whose promise was not fulfilled due to the decision of the government to keep the peasant estate institutionally separate.