TY - BOOK AU - Engelstein,Laura TI - Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path SN - 9780801459450 AV - DK189 -- .E54 2009eb U1 - 947.08 PY - 2009/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Political culture -- Russia -- History -- 19th century KW - Slavophilism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century KW - Liberalism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century KW - Russians -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 19th century KW - Nationalism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century KW - Religion and state -- Russia -- History -- 19th century KW - Russia -- Politics and government -- 1801-1917 KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3137960 ER -