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Russia and the Making of Modern Greek Identity, 1821-1844 (Hardcover)
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Russia and the Making of Modern Greek Identity, 1821-1844 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History
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The birth of the Greek nation in 1830 was a pivotal event in modern
European history and in the history of nation-building in general.
As the first internationally recognized state to appear on the map
of Europe since the French Revolution, independent Greece provided
a model for other national movements to emulate. Throughout the
process of nation formation in Greece, the Russian Empire played a
critical part. Drawing upon a mass of previously fallow archival
material, most notably from Russian embassies and consulates, this
volume explores the role of Russia and the potent interaction of
religion and politics in the making of modern Greek identity. It
deals particularly with the role of Eastern Orthodoxy in the
transformation of the collective identity of the Greeks from the
Ottoman Orthodox millet into the new Hellenic-Christian imagined
community. Lucien J. Frary provides the first comprehensive
examination of Russian reactions to the establishment of the
autocephalous Greek Church, the earliest of its kind in the
Orthodox Balkans, and elucidates Russia's anger and disappointment
during the Greek Constitutional Revolution of 1843, the leaders of
which were Russophiles. Employing Russian newspapers and "thick
journals" of the era, Frary probes responses within Russian reading
circles to the reforms and revolutions taking place in the Greek
kingdom. More broadly, the volume explores the making of Russian
foreign policy during the reign of Nicholas I (1825-55) and
provides a distinctively transnational perspective on the formation
of modern identity.
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