By Serhii Plokhy
This 2006 ebook records advancements within the nations of japanese Europe, together with the increase of authoritarian trends in Russia and Belarus, in addition to the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses vital questions on the origins of the East Slavic countries and the basic similarities or transformations among their cultures. It strains the origins of the trendy Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian international locations through targeting pre-modern varieties of staff identification one of the japanese Slavs. It additionally demanding situations makes an attempt to 'nationalize' the Rus' earlier on behalf of present nationwide initiatives, laying the foundation for figuring out of the pre-modern historical past of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The ebook covers the interval from the Christianization of Kyivan Rus' within the 10th century to the reign of Peter I and his eighteenth-century successors, through which time the assumption of nationalism had began to steer the contemplating East Slavic elites.
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Pamiati Nikity Il icha Tolstogo, vol. II (Moscow, 1998), pp. 321–37, here 329. ”24 How many identities (or levels of one identity) did the author or authors of the Primary Chronicle possess, and what impact did they have on his/their interpretation of the past? Did that identity really include the elements described above and, if so, was it limited to the above-mentioned five components, or did it represent a more complex and multilevel construct? We shall approach the question of the “hybrid” identity of the author of the Primary Chronicle by examining several legends that can be interpreted as vehicles facilitating the chronicler’s search for the origins of his own identity.
22 The Origins of the Slavic Nations Primary Chronicle presents numerous and often conflicting stories of how the Rus came to participate in all those communities. What strikes one in most of these stories is their common element. It is the princes and tribesmen with whom the chronicler associates himself who choose the community to which they are to belong, not the other way around. Thus the story told by the chronicler is that of his people’s search for identity. This certainly applies to the political identity of Rus , which was dynastic in origin.
O. Kliuchevskii, Sochineniia, vol. I (Moscow, 1956), pp. 32–34, 42–43, 94–95, 128–29, 147, 152–53, 204–5; A. E. Presniakov, Lektsii po russkoi istorii, vol. I, Kievskaia Rus (Moscow, 1938; repr. The Hague, 1966), pp. 1–11. The term drevnerusskaia narodnost (Old Russian nationality), coined by Mavrodin to denote the population of Kyivan Rus , competed with two other terms suggested respectively in 1943 and 1944 by A. D. Udaltsov: drevnerusskii narod (Old Russian people) and obshcherusskaia narodnost (all-Russian nationality).