POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: October Revolution, Slavophilia, Westernization
15 Apr 2013
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The country has struggled with its national identity in the post-soviet period. The country has gone through three different regimes, separated by revolutions, in the 20th century . [1] the russian imperialist regime [2] the core of the soviet union [3] post soviet - 15 separate nation states, including the russians. The reality is that in both the soviet case and russian federation case, the elites and public have entered into public discussions into what the nature of the new nation is, and should be. In the post-soviet period has involved reconstructing the russian identity along territorial lines. Issue of religion institutions and values that had been undermined, if not destroyed, during the soviet period. The issue of who we are in terms of the narrative that defines us, our history constructs a story of who we are We can examine this debate in many ways through intellectuals and academics, school textbooks, the media, political leaders, etc .
