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The Ukrainian question, the Russian Empire and nationalism in the nineteenth century, by Alexei Miller

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-287) and index

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The Ukrainian question

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by Alexei Miller

"This pioneering work treats the Ukrainian question in Russian imperial policy and its importance for the intelligentsia of the empire. Miller sets the Russian Empire in the context of modernizing and occasionally nationalizing great power states and discusses the process of incorporating the Ukraine, better known as "Little Russia" in the time, into the Romanov Empire in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This territorial expansion evolved into a competition of mutually exclusive concepts of Russian and Ukrainian nation-building projects."--, BOOK JACKET

the Russian Empire and nationalism in the nineteenth century

Introduction: Theoretical principles of nationalism studies important for this book -- Comparative-historical context -- The 'all Russian nation" project -- On terminology. Russia and Ukrainophilism in the first half of the nineteenth century -- The first years of Alexander II's reign and latent Ukrainophilism -- The advancement of Ukrainophilism in the 1860s, Osnova and the Russian press -- The Imperial authorities and Ukrainophilism, 1862-1863. The genesis of the Valuev Circular -- The Valuev Circular in government structures and public opinion -- Government policy after the Valuev Circular -- Strengthening the Russian assimilation potential in the western borderland -- The Kiev period of Ukrainophilism (1872-1876) -- The Ems Edict -- The "execution" of the Ems Edict -- The consequences of the Ems Edict -- The subsidy for Slovo. Galician Rusyns in the policy of St. Petersburg -- The 1880-1881 crisis of power and the attempt to abolish the Ems Edict