Truly Russian people. The history of Russian nationalism

The theme of nationalism was and remains one of the most acute, complex, contradictory and ambiguous in the last two centuries of European history. Disputes do not subside around it, it now and then becomes the cause of bloody conflicts and more than any other, accompanied by distorted interpretations of ideas, simplifications and obsolete ideologems - primarily because it turns out to be inseparable from issues of power and politics. In order to preserve the clarity of consciousness and a sober view of this question, it is necessary to “not cry, not to laugh, but to understand” - to which the leading historian of Russian social thought Andrei Tesl strives in his course on the intellectual history of Russian nationalism. The lecturer in an exciting narrative impartially analyzes the origins of nationalism in Russia, its varieties, a violent history of development and a clash of ideas