Liberalism and nationalism in Russia. Boris Chicherin as a modernist nationalist

Bibliographic Data

ID6307136
AuthorsSusanna Rabow‐edling (Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Uppsala University Sweden, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume18
Issue4
Pages701-718
Publication date2012-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNations and Nationalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1469-8129.2012.00548.x
OpenAlexW2109592480
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited34

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

Context (archaeology · Economic liberalism · Formative assessment · Liberalism · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Central European national history · European Political History Analysis · Gender Studies · History · Law · Soviet and Russian History