Russian conversations: the opponent of the "Big Russian Nation." Teslya A.A.

The Russian XIX century is significant for us today to a lesser extent in that it was at this time - in disputes and conversations, in mutual understanding or misunderstanding - that social language and the system of images and ideas that we, freely or involuntarily, have been developed. Fortunately or to the detriment of ourselves, we continue to use to this day. A series of essays and notes presented in this book reveals some of the key plots of Russian intellectual history of that time related to the question of the place and appointment of Russia - that is, about its possible future, conceivable through the past.

XIX XIX XIX XIX The centuries of “nationalisms” is rightly called - and the Russian Empire is part of this pan -European process. The book contains essays on the one hand, on the one hand, theoretical issues of modern nationalism, on the other hand, the history of the formation and development of the Ukrainian national movement in the 19th - early XX century. The latter is all the more interesting and significant from the historical point of view, which allows you to see the complexity of the processes of nation -crossing at the intersection of a number of imperial spaces, competition between various national projects and their interaction and confrontation with the imperial whole.

The author of the collection is a leading specialist According to Russian public thought of the XIX century, senior researcher at Academia Kantiana Institute of Humanities BFU named after Kant (Kaliningrad), candidate of philosophical sciences Andrei Alexandrovich Tesl.