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Liberalism and nationalism in R ussia. B oris C hicherin as a modernist nationalist
Author(s) -
RabowEdling Susanna
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
nations and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1469-8129
pISSN - 1354-5078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2012.00548.x
Subject(s) - nationalism , liberalism , politics , context (archaeology) , state (computer science) , sociology , economic liberalism , political science , formative assessment , law , political economy , gender studies , history , archaeology , algorithm , computer science , pedagogy
This article investigates the link between nationalism and liberalism in R ussia by looking at the way the leading spokesman of early R ussian liberalism, B oris C hicherin, combined liberal ideas with notions of nation‐building and the idea of the nation as a modernising phenomenon. The article argues that the young C hicherin, 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 R ussia 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 O ttoman E mpire, has been called modernist nationalism.