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This chapter analyses Hybrid Exceptionalism as it emerged in response to the growing modernising pressures in nineteenth-century Russia. After briefly discussing Russia’s pre-modern imperial expansion, and its initial encounter with Western early modernity, it examines how the resulting nineteenth-century debates on Russian identity—between Slavophiles and Westernisers—defined Russia’s civilising mission over its imperial borderlands. The chapter then discusses the differing ways Tsarist Russia’s Hybrid Exceptionalism operated in East and West as the Empire expanded and modernised, through outright repression, the active, ‘scientific’ management of the ‘authenticity’ of its increasingly restless minorities, and, later, their outright russification. The chapter concludes by detailing the role of the nascent social sciences, humanities, and arts in justifying and shaping these policies over the Empire’s Oriental and Occidental subalterns. |
