Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Discordant Choir -- 1. Combined Underdevelopment: Discipline and the Law in Imperial and Soviet Russia -- 2. Revolution and the Theater of Public Life: The Triumph of Extremes -- 3. The Dream of Civil Society: The Law, the State, and Religious Toleration -- 4. Holy Russia in Modern Times: The Slavophile Quest for the Lost Faith -- 5. Orthodox Self-Reflection in a Modernizing Age: The Case of Ivan and Natal'ia Kireevskii -- 6. Between Art and Icon: Aleksandr Ivanov's Russian Christ -- 7. The Old Slavophile Steed: Failed Nationalism and the Philosophers' Jewish Problem -- Index.
Engelstein asks how Russia's identity came to be defined in terms of an consensus opposed to Western-style liberalism, examining debates on religion and secularism, the role of culture and the law, and the status of the empire's ethnic peripheries.
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Political culture -- Russia -- History -- 19th century. Slavophilism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century. Liberalism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century. Russians -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 19th century. Nationalism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century. Religion and state -- Russia -- History -- 19th century. Russia -- Politics and government -- 1801-1917.