Russian Nationalism Past and Present

by Robert Service

Scholars of Russian politics and history offer 11 contributions which address a range of issues including the main phases and distinctive features of Russian nationalism; Russian liberal conservatism; anti-Westernism in National Bolshevik and Russian revolutionary thought; the cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia; anti-semitism in post-communist Russia; and contemporary Russian nationalism in historical perspective. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

217 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1997

About the author

This author is the British historian of modern Russia. For the British-Canadian writer of Yukon poetry, see Robert W. Service.

Robert Service is a British academic and historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. He is a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford.

He is the author of the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, A History of Twentieth - Century Russia, Russia: Experiment with a People and Stalin: A Biography, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. He wrote a marvelous book on communism titled Comrades Communism A World History (International Bestseller). He is married with four children.