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The Decembrists and the Concept of a Civic Nation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Susanna Rabow-Edling
Susanna Rabow-Edling*
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Uppsala University, Sweden. Email: susanna.rabow-edling@eurasia.uu.se
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Long live the constitution! Long live the republic! Long live the people! Perish the nobility and the rank of the czar!

Nationalism in the East has long been considered to be different from nationalism in the West. Although Hans Kohn's famous dichotomy has been challenged, it still determines the way most people look at Eastern nationalism. Nationalism in the East is seen as authoritarian, ethnic and cultural in contrast to the democratic, civic and political nationalism of the West. According to the common view, Western nationalism is based on modern liberal, constitutional ideas, which makes it democratic, while Eastern nationalism is based on cultural belonging, which makes it conservative or regressive and hostile to foreign influence.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , May 2007 , pp. 369 - 391
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Copyright © 2007 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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