Sacralisation and Purification of the Nation in the Polish and Russian Nationalist Thought?

• Authors: Roman Bäcker

Abstracts

EN

Both in the Polish and Russian language the term ‘nation’ is understood in a slightly different way than the English word ‘nation’. It is understood not only in cultural but also political terms, and in numerous contexts it is used to denote ‘the people’ or an ‘ethnic nation/ethnos’. Thus, when we use words ‘nation, nationality, narodnost’, sometimes only the context makes it possible to decide whether we mean the nation, nation or ethnos. However, this lack of clear distinction in the colloquial discourse should not make one conclude that there are not fully shaped nations in Poland and Russia. It is just that the colloquial discourse fails to notice these vague distinctions. In the scientific discourse in both countries, these differentiations have been precisely defined and used for a long time.

Keywords

EN

National Identity; Russia; Poland

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 38
• Pages: 123-129

Dates

published

2009

Contributors

author

Roman Bäcker

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2009010

Biblioteka Nauki

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