"Slavophile Empire has a clear logic and coherence: the divisions of law, religion, and art all revolve around the central question of identity and relationship to the 'West.' I found the chapters on Slavophiles and art especially stimulating and original."--Gregory Freeze, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of History, Brandeis University, author of The Parish Clergy in Nineteenth-Century Russia "Laura Engelstein's writing is always thoughtful and instructive. The essays in Slavophile Empire are a pleasure to read. They illuminate the battle that Russian thinkers and artists waged with one another and with the government to define the terms of Russia's encounter with modernity and indeed to define what it meant to be Russian in a modern world whose categories of thought derived primarily from Europe."-David L. Ransel, Robert F. Byrnes Professor of History and Director of the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington, author of A Russian Merchant's Tale: The Life and Adventures of Ivan Alekseevich Tolchлnov, Based on His Diary.
