Can a Christian Be a Nationalist? Vladimir Solov'ev's Critique of Nationalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4938580
AutoresGreg Gaut (University of Minnesota, autor de correspondencia)
Año1998
Volumen57
Número1
Páginas77-94
Fecha de publicación1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSlavic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2502053
OpenAlexW2314981615
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas10

If my entire argument could fit under this rubric: Russia is a Christian nation andthereforeshould always act in a Christian way, my opponents' argument can be expressed in the following formula: The Russian nation...is the only truly Christian nation, butnevertheless,it should act in a pagan way in all of its affairs.-Vladimir Solov'ev, Preface toThe National Question in Russia, Part II(1891)In the 1880s and 1890s, Vladimir Solov'ev worked out a Christian approach to nations and nationality, and a moral critique of nationalism, while waging a polemical battle against the Russian conservative nationalists of his day. His ideas emerged primarily from his own social gospel theology, but they were marked by both the Slavophile romanticism of his early career and the western liberalism of his later years. Solov'ev is most often treated as a philosopher, a mystic, or a literary figure, and as a result, his journalistic writings on nationalism and other topics have often been overlooked by scholars, even though they constitute at least a third of his published output

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