title: From the enlightenment to National Socialism
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metadata.value: Baryshnikov, Vladimir Nikolaevich
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Borisenko, Victor Nikolaevich
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Plenkov, Oleg Jurjevich
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-05-18T13:04:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-05-18T13:04:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-03
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metadata.value: Baryshnikov V. N., Borisenko V. N., Plenkov O. Y. From the enlightenment to National Socialism. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 1, pp. 91–105.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6366
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper criticizes a commonly held misconception of Prussia’s especially villainous role in the development
  and dissemination of nationalism — one of the most malign and destructive doctrines in
  modern history. With Prussia no longer in existence, having been annihilated by the Allies in 1947,
  this misconception has spread even more widely. Relying on analysis of German philosophical systems
  and literary trends of the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as on the historical concepts of nationalism,
  this paper reveals the origins of the myth of the Prussian nationalism and outlines the main features of
  the Prussian state. Prussian efficiency, which characterized Prussian governance, was one of these important
  features. This is why Prussia itself needed no additional nationalist props. This distinguished
  Prussia drastically from the most of the other European countries. The lack of ideology in Prussia was
  partly compensated by Pietism, a religious system, which fostered the feeling of loyalty in the subjects
  of the state. Moreover, as Prussia was definitely conservative, it strongly opposed romantic nationalism
  diffused from revolutionary France. The paper especially emphasizes the fact of the absence of ethnic
  conflicts in Prussia and the peaceful coexistence of the Prussian colonists and the local population in
  the other countries. In the end, as the paper demonstrates, nationalism did manage to infiltrate the
  German political culture. However, Prussia should not be held guilty for that, as German nationalism
  stemmed from the general trend typical for European mass society at the turn of the twentieth century.
  Refs 30.
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: German nationalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of Prussia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: theoretical origins of nationalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pietism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the House of Hohenzollern
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: National Socialism and the Prussian tradition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Europe and nationalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: From the enlightenment to National Socialism
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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