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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Russia in Search of Itself Transl. from English by N.N. Balashova
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2005 224 p Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 5824306338 Language: Russian
The author, an American Slavicist and the director of the Library of Congress, asserts that Russia had no specific national identity until the 19th century. The search for national individuality that started in the nineteenth century was accompanied with stormy debates among Russian intellectuals, which finally caused several social cataclysms, and produced new social theories and practices; utopian ideocracy, Russian chauvinism, sanctioned "vozhdizm", and authoritarian rule. Analyzing the current state of Russian society, the author finds that Russians move from despair to moderate optimism, and are seeking for a new self-identity. Bibliographic references.
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