Riasanovsky N.V. Nicholas I and Official Nationality In Russia, 1825-1855

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. - 296 pgs. For thirty years Russia was ruled by Official Nationality, which depended on a particular interpretation of orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationalism, the guiding principles of the reign of Nicholas I. Nicholas has been neglected by historians, and the significance of Official Nationality has been obscured. The present book is the first to analyze this doctrine and its role in history. Professor Riasanovsky's book is a fine piece of scholarly research and writing and an important English-language contribution to Russian historiography.