Russia’s national past: unpicking history from propaganda
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The Origin Story of Russia
The history extora, part of the state has been tramping down on forms of a historical research and presentation. The question of where do the russians come from has been incrediblya contentious so the first historians of russia were germans. Did russia receive its statehood, its nationhood, from foreigners, or did it make itself as a nation, as a slave civilization, indigenously organicaly? And in the nineteenth century, as the force of slaveilism developed, accentuating russias indigenous talent, its historic destiny, independent from the west, that nationalist story became dominant.
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