The study of quasi-states has been marred by an unfortunate terminological confusion. Sometimes, this term is taken to mean recognized states that fail to develop the necessary state structures to function as fully fledged, ...

Slavophilism was one of the most original and important intellectual currents in Russia in the 19th century. In the great philosophical debate in the 1840s and 1850s, however, the Slavophiles were on the losing side: their ...

Begrepet ‟folket‟ i russisk samfunnsdebatt i forrige århundre omfattet ikke hele Russlands befolkning. Det gikk et skarpt skille mellom den forfinede, velutdannede ov vestliggjordte overklassen på den ene siden, og de brede ...

When Leo Tolstoi emerged as a religious teacher in the 1880s, taking a sharply polemical stance against the Orthodox faith he had been raised in, the Russian church was at a loss to find effective and appropriate ways to ...