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Author Nas, Darius Stali

Title Making Russians : Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863
Published Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (480 pages)
Series On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, 11 ; v. v. 11
On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, 11
Contents Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. Administrative Boundaries and Nationality Policy; II. The Search for a Nationality Policy Strategy in the Early 1860s; III. The Meanings of Russification; IV. Separating "Them" from "Us." Definitions of Nationality in Political Practice; V. Confessional Experiments; VI. Metamorphoses in Language Policy; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Making Russians is an innovative study dealing with Russian nationalities policy in Lithuania and Belarus in the aftermath of the 1863 Uprising. The book devotes most attention to imperial confessional and language policy, for in Russian discourse at that time it was religion and language that were considered to be the most important criteria determining nationality. The account of Russian nationalities policy presented here differs considerably from the assessments usually offered by historians from east-central Europe primarily because the author provides a more subtle description of the aim
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Subject Russification -- Lithuania
Russification -- Belarus
Russification
Belarus
Lithuania
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789042031326
9042031328