A Motherland with a Radius of 300 Miles: Regional Identity in Russian Secondary and Post-Elementary Education from the Early Nineteenth Century to the War and Revolution

This article explores the problem of the interrelations between local and imperial identities by looking at the ways the regional diversity of the Empire was represented in Russian secondary and post-elementary education through the nineteenth-early twentieth centuries. Particular attention is given to the place of local studies in the school curriculum, as part of a broader movement that sought to establish an intermediary space between the individual and his or her immediate environment and the Empire as a whole - this phenomenon revealed the growing self-confidence of the provincial public.