Rulers and victims : the Russians in the Soviet Union / Geoffrey Hosking.

By: Hosking, Geoffrey A [author]
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006Description: xi, 484 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0674021789 ; 9780674021785; 9780674030534 ; 0674030532Subject(s): National characteristics, Russian | Russians -- Ethnic identity | Nationalism -- Russia (Federation) | Soviet Union -- HistoryDDC classification: 305.800946
Contents:
Marxism and the crisis of Russian messianism -- The effects of revolution and civil war -- Soviet nationality policy and the Russians -- Two Russias collide -- Projecting a new Russia -- The Great Fatherland War -- The sweet and bitter fruits of victory -- The relaunch of utopia -- The rediscovery of Russia -- The return of politics -- An unanticipated creation: the Russian Federation.
Summary: Russians regarded the Soviet Union as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind of Russia emerged? Historian Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians. Messianism--the idea rooted in Russian Orthodoxy that the Russians were a "chosen people"--Was reshaped by the communists into messianic socialism, in which the Soviet order would lead the world in a new direction. Hosking analyzes how the Soviet state molded Russian identity; the dislocations resulting from collectivization and industrialization; the relationship between ethnic Russians and other Soviet peoples; the effects of World War II on ideas of homeland and patriotism; and leadership and the cult of personality. At the heart of this work is the fundamental question of what happens to a people who place their nationhood at the service of empire.--From publisher description.
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Includes index

Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-461)

Marxism and the crisis of Russian messianism --
The effects of revolution and civil war --
Soviet nationality policy and the Russians --
Two Russias collide --
Projecting a new Russia --
The Great Fatherland War --
The sweet and bitter fruits of victory --
The relaunch of utopia --
The rediscovery of Russia --
The return of politics --
An unanticipated creation: the Russian Federation.


Russians regarded the Soviet Union as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind of Russia emerged? Historian Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians. Messianism--the idea rooted in Russian Orthodoxy that the Russians were a "chosen people"--Was reshaped by the communists into messianic socialism, in which the Soviet order would lead the world in a new direction. Hosking analyzes how the Soviet state molded Russian identity; the dislocations resulting from collectivization and industrialization; the relationship between ethnic Russians and other Soviet peoples; the effects of World War II on ideas of homeland and patriotism; and leadership and the cult of personality. At the heart of this work is the fundamental question of what happens to a people who place their nationhood at the service of empire.--From publisher description.

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