Defining self
Subtitle: essays on emergent identities in Russia seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
By: compiled and edited by Michael Branch
Series: Studia fennica. Ethnologica -- 10; Studia fennica -- 10.
Publisher: Finnish Literature Society
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 643
ISBN-13: 9789522220332
Subjects: Ethnology; Congresses; Ethnic groups; Minorities; History
Description: The authors aim to bring to a wider audience an insight into identity formation in one of the largest multi-national countries in the world. Twentieth-century politics have all too often obscured the complexity of identity formation in Russia, which, arguably, has proved detrimental to our greater understanding of identity processes at a theoretical level. The book aims to bring into sharper focus the process by which a multitude of identities began to emerge in the Russian empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book also reviews a series of case-studies of identity formation in Russia based on religion, historical beliefs, language, local culture, and various combinations of these factors.--
Notes: "The present volume is the outcome of a conference held at the Kymenlaakso Summer University, Finland, June 2006"--P. 9.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Self-discovery; title: Nationality; title: Religion-based identities; title: Historical identities; title: Language-based identities.