HIST 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: True History, Gambling, Vissarion Belinsky
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After napoleonic wars, the russians (elites/intellectuals) begin to question - what is. Russia, what is russian identity/nationality, what does it mean to be russian?, etc. Another consequence was the develop of reaction - first with alexander then with. Revolutions in russia are distinctly tied to napoleonic wars. This was the time period when all of the major questions of what russia is and what. Russia future is are beginning to be asked. Ideas were critical during this time period in russian history - its an era that is difficult for us to recapture - it was a time period when ideas mattered more than anything else. They believed that ideas were very important in forming russia as a whole. Romanticism is a philosophy that is the reaction to the enlightenment among intellectuals. The romantic movement had its origins around the same time as the enlightenment (late 18th c. )
