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Russian national self-awareness, like any manifestation of social consciousness, can only be studied if one observes one vital precondition. One has to abandon the belief that the self-awareness of a nation, in this case the Russian nation, has always been a consistent thing, and has not changed over the thousand years which were celebrated in 1988. If we arm ourselves with the firm conviction that national self-awareness possesses its own dynamism then we are less likely to pre-judge conclusions and judgements and more likely to be able to establish what was taking place in Russian society during the eighteenth century and the forms that social consciousness took in that period.1
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Serman, I. (1990). Russian National Consciousness and its Development in the Eighteenth Century. In: Bartlett, R., Hartley, J. (eds) Russia in the Age of the Enlightenment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20897-5_3
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