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Remembering 1812: Russian Empire-, Nation-, and State-Building across the Centuries

Sat, November 22, 4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST), -

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This panel is inspired in part by the conference theme, "Memory," and in part by Geoffrey Hosking's argument in _Russia: People and Empire_ (1997): namely, that Russian empire-building obstructed Russian nation-building. At the risk of stating the obvious: Russia in 1812 and 1912 was an empire; the "long nineteenth century" is often referred to as the "Age of Nationalism"; and the year 1812 has figured prominently in discourses of state-building in Putin's Russia. Our papers seek to engage with these concepts, projects, and the extant historiography. We aim to examine and explain some of the ways that Russia’s ruling elites and subjects have mobilized memories of 1812 in the service of, inter alia, Russian empire-, nation-, and state-building over the past 200 centuries.

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