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A Country of White Lilies: Inter-Imperial Nation-Making and Development from the Russian Empire’s Periphery to Post-Ottoman Turkey

Bavbek, N. Yasemin ; Korhonen, Juho Topias

Comparative studies in society and history, 2024-04, Vol.66 (2), p.417-442 [Periódico revisado por pares]

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

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  • Título:
    A Country of White Lilies: Inter-Imperial Nation-Making and Development from the Russian Empire’s Periphery to Post-Ottoman Turkey
  • Autor: Bavbek, N. Yasemin ; Korhonen, Juho Topias
  • Assuntos: 20th century ; Affinity ; Architects of Centers and Peripheries ; Economic development ; Empires ; Ethnic cleansing ; Geopolitics ; Intelligentsia ; Knowledge ; Literature ; Military schools ; Modernization ; Nation building ; Nation states ; National development ; Nationalism ; Political violence ; Politics ; Sociology ; World War I
  • É parte de: Comparative studies in society and history, 2024-04, Vol.66 (2), p.417-442
  • Descrição: In this article, we investigate the reasons behind the puzzling enthusiastic reception of a book about Finland’s national development by Turkish nationalist intellectuals in the early Republic of Turkey. Published in Turkish in 1928, the developmental model laid out in Petrov’s The Country of White Lilies resonated with the Turkish intelligentsia and has remained a popular book in Turkey throughout the twentieth century, and even today. First, we compare the fictionalized developmental model presented by Petrov in his book with Finnish development under the Russian Empire, before its independence in 1917. Second, we show that this reception was largely based on a comparison of Turkey and Finland’s geopolitical positions in global imperial politics, and a constructed racial affinity between the two nations in the minds of Turkish readers. Third, we argue that this national developmental model served three ideological purposes; distancing the Turkish Republic from the Ottoman Empire, showing the developmental capacity of nations outside the linear and paternalistic developmental model proposed by Western European empires, and last, presenting a model that glosses over Ottoman-Turkish state violence and ethnic cleansing, as well as democratic processes, as irrelevant to considerations of progress and development. Finally, we discuss the implications of our study for re-evaluating the sociological literature on nation formation, largely taking its “model cases” (Krause 2021) from the Western European experience, through a more encompassing inter-imperial approach (Doyle 2014).
  • Editor: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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