Description
Book SynopsisDynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenth-century Ukraine, the most pivotal borderland of the Russian Empire. The Shul''gins identified as Russians and defended the tsarist autocracy; the Shul''hyns identified as Ukrainians and supported peasant-oriented socialism. Fabian Baumann shows how these men and women consciously chose a political position and only then began their self-fashioning as members of a national community, defying the notion of nationalism as a direct consequence of ethnicity.
Baumann asks what made individuals into determined nationalists in the first place, revealing the close link to private lives, including intimate family dramas and scandals. He looks at how nationalism emerged from domestic spaces, and how women played an important (if often invisible) role in fin-de-siècle politics. Dynasty Divided expl
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. At the Crossroads: The Search forthe Little Russian Soul, 1830s–1876
2. Niche Nationalism: Kiev'sUkrainophiles, 1876–1914
3. Patriarchs and Patriots: The Rise ofRussian Nationalism, 1876–1914
4. Triumph and Tragedy: Nationalistsin War and Revolution, 1914–1920
5. Living off the Past: Nationalists Write Their Lives in Interwar Europe
Conclusion
