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Creating the Russian Peril - Education, the Public Sphere, and National Identity in Imperial Germany, 1890-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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Creating the Russian Peril - Education, the Public Sphere, and National Identity in Imperial Germany, 1890-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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German attitudes toward and stereotypes of Russia before the First
World War and how they were inculcated in the public. The causes of
the First World War have been studied and debated for many decades,
yet cultural historians of Germany have largely neglected the
German-Russian aspect of the conflict for a focus on the clash of
Germany and Great Britain. When they have focused on Germany and
Russia, they have too often dismissed the anti-Russian propaganda
of the war's first months as a sudden and opportunistic campaign to
justify the war. This intellectual and cultural history gives
German attitudes toward and stereotypes of Russia their due,
re-examining them through the lens of German national identity and
revealing an evolving obsession with Russia during the
quarter-century leading up to the war, when Germany came to
consider itself a Western nation, with Russia, to use Edward Said's
terminology, as an Oriental "other." While historians have
addressed the issue of an Oriental Russia, this book extends the
analysis beyond traditional intellectual history's focus on
cultural elites by studying the construction of Russia in school
textbooks, newspapers, and the writings of academics. Drawing upon
the work of Said, Jurgen Habermas, Sander Gilman, and Pierre
Bourdieu, Troy Paddock demonstrates that public debate on Russia
was based on common assumptions, and contends that these
assumptions -- which resulted in the ascendancy of a view of Russia
as the "Slavic peril" in the last few years before the war -- were
ingrained in the public through education. Troy Paddock is
Professor of History at Southern Connecticut State University.
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