Russia

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Russia
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Vera Tolz
SeriesInventing the Nation
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9780340677056
ClassificationsDewey:947
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Hodder Arnold
Publication Date 31 March 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This work traces the development of Russian national consciousness from the time of the reforms of Peter the Great in the early-18th century, when ideas of nation and nationalism first penetrated Russia, up until Russia's current post-imperial identity crisis. It looks at nationalism both as an ideology and a movement that incorporates political and cultural dimensions.

Author Biography

Vera Tolz is Professor of Russian Studies, University of Manchester.

Reviews

Russia: Inventing the nation by Vera Tolz makes a major contribution towards elucidating how Russians' own understanding of themselves has evolved over the past three centuries. Most previous Western histories have treated the Soviet Union as an irrelevant or regressive period in the evolution of Russian nationhood. Tolz "brings back the Soviet Union", not idealizing it but showing that it played its own paradoxical and ambivalent role. Times Literary Supplement Russia, by Vera Tolz, is thoroughly researched and clearly written. Reading the book is illuminating .. History: Reviews of New Books. Although a volume so kaleidoscopic in content, so allusive in argument, and so multilayered in construction necessarily yeilds more to those familiar with the subject than it can to the novice, Tolz writes vigorously throughout, and readers at all levels of sophistication will have something to learn from her consistently interesting book. Slavonica