IMPERIAL RHETORIC AND THE FINNISH OTHER IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE in selected works of Aleksandr Puškin and Fëdor Dostojevskij
Journal: Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive (Gothenburg University)
Year: 2017

Inspired by the ongoing debate on Russia’s imperial revival, this paper is set to explore earlier\nmanifestations of Russian imperial rhetoric in Russian literature of the 1800s. The second aim of this\nstudy is to analyse the imperial rhetoric with reference to one of Russia’s neighbouring countries,\nFinland. In these regards, this essay assumes that the Finns and Finland played a role in Russian nation\nbuilding of the 1800s and, further, that Russian literature mediated this process. The que