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Russians as Asiatics: Memory about the Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2013

Dmitry Shlapentokh*
Affiliation:
Department of History, Indiana University, PO BOX 7111, South Bend, IN, 46634-7111, USA. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

History as recorded very often follows the desire of political pragmatists. Nineteenth-century French views of Russia are a good example. France was in conflict with Russia through most of that century. As racism grew across Europe, French historians presented Russians as brutish Asiatics and a mortal threat to civilized Europe. The Russo-French alliance in 1894 changed these views, but the stereotypes continued to hibernate in the collective subconscious of the West to be resurrected in times of political expediency.

Type
Focus: Nation
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2013

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