Foreword: Accounting for human diversity
Journal: Manchester University Press eBooks
Year: 2023

This foreword discusses different ways in which human diversity was interpreted and depicted in Russia's land-based empire, noting how certain pan-European trends played out in its specific context. Particular attention is paid to the period from the 1870s to the late 1920s, which, it is argued, witnessed a profound rethinking of how the origins of European culture, and Russian culture, should be understood. The foreword shows how, at the turn of the twentieth century, some Russian intellectuals