THE IMPACT OF RUSSIA'S HISTORICAL ECONOMIC POSITION ON RUSSIAN IDENTITY AND NATIONALISM

Year 2015, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 33 - 59, 30.06.2017

Mert Gökırmak

Abstract

It can be
suggested that the formation of Russian national identity is shaped in line
with economic developments and political nationalism with intersections where
they have influence over one another. One important question to be answered at
this point is how the economic developments in Russian Federation following the
Dissolution of the Soviet Union affected the national identity of Russia. The
main goal of this study is to fill in the gap between economic and political
discourses, while revealing the historical connection between capitalism and
nationalism in Russia. The study is primarily divided into three main periods
and the events are explained based on such chronologies. The first one of these
periods comprises modernization movements in Tsarist Russia and Russia's
articulation across the global economy; the second one focuses on the socialist
regime that began with the Soviet Union; and finally, the third one focuses on
the time of Russian Federation.

Keywords

Russian Identity, Nationalism, Soviet Union, Capitalism, Modernization

RUSYA’NIN TARİHSEL-EKONOMİK KONUMUNUN RUS KİMLİĞİ VE MİLLİYETÇİLİĞİ ÜZERİNDEKİ ETKİSİ

Abstract

Rusya’da ulusal
kimliğin şekillenmesinde ekonomik gelişmeler ile politik milliyetçiliğin yan
yana gittiği ve birbirlerini etkilediği söylenebilir. Özellikle Sovyetler
Birliği’nin dağılmasından sonra Rusya Federasyonu içinde yaşanan ekonomik
gelişmelerin Rus ulusal kimliği üzerinde nasıl bir etki yaptığı,
cevaplandırılması gereken önemli bir sorudur. Ekonomik ve politik yorumların
arasındaki farkın kapatılması ve Rusya’da kapitalizm ve milliyetçilik
arasındaki tarihsel ilişkilerin ortaya çıkarılması ise bu çalışmanın temel
amacını oluşturmaktadır. Çalışma esasen üç ana döneme ayrılmakta ve yaşananlar
bu tarihsel bölümlendirme üzerinden açıklanmaktadır. Bu dönemlerden ilki,
Çarlık Rusya’sındaki modernleşme hareketleri ve Rusya’nın kapitalist dünya
ekonomisine eklemlenme süreci, ikincisi Sovyetler Birliği ile başlayan
sosyalist rejim ve üçüncüsü Rusya Federasyonu dönemidir.

Keywords

Rus Kimliği, Milliyetçilik, Sovyetler Birliği, Kapitalizm, modernleşme

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