Архив статей журнала
Evgenii Egorov’s dissertation is devoted to an actual historical problem. The author focuses on Scandinavianism as a complex cultural phenomenon and multilevel political ideology that emerged in the 1840s, flourished in the 1850s — early 1860s and gradually lost influence after the defeat of Denmark in the Second War for Schleswig of 1864.
The Russian Empire’s attempts to solve the ‘Finnish question’ at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries are discussed within the context of the Empire’s national policy, in particular, that pertaining to the Polish and Baltic questions. The author identifies the general policy directions for these three regions, as well as the peculiarities characteristic of the situation in Finland. The author concludes that the policy towards Finland was quite in line with the general trends in the transformation of the empire’s national policy, but at the same time had a number of important special features.