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Was the emergence of Russian national identity merely a historical accident?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Leonid Luks*
Affiliation:
The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, Germany

Extract

David Brandenberger provides, in his recent Nationalities Paper discussion paper “Stalin's populism and the accidental creation of Russian national identity” an interesting and plausible argument. However, his article contains several, to my view, controversial and unconvincing assumptions which is why I would like to add the below critical remarks to those already made by David R. Marples and Andreas Umland.

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Copyright © 2011 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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