Open AccessBetween nation and empire: revisiting the Russian past twenty years later
Author(s) -
Ada Dialla
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
historein
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2241-2816
pISSN - 1108-3441
DOI - 10.12681/historein.184
Subject(s) - style (visual arts) , span (engineering) , history , life span , empire , humanities , art , literature , ancient history , gerontology , medicine , civil engineering , engineering
This article is a succinct presentation of the historiographical overturns in the study of Russian history that have taken place in the last twenty years following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The main emphasis is on the ʽimperial turnʼ which undermines older historical givens but also disputes the importance of the nation/nation-state as a basic category for understanding the past.