"Les usages politiques du corps". Université d’été du 25 au 30 aout 2014 en Albanie. / Po-yi, Chen

Irresolute Reformers ? Westernizers under Nicholaevan Regime (1825-1855) A Case Study on I. S. Turgenev (1818-1883)

This paper aims to reconsider the concept of Narodnost’ (1) and re-interpret its effects on Russian aristocratic society since this concept affects not only the issue of serfdom in Imperial Russia, but also the issue of Slavic unity or concept of Slavdom, which may have a prominent influence on the development of Russianness and even the ideology of USSR. Under Russian Empire, Aristocrats in general had two parallel identities— identity of serving as officials and of serving as landed (...)