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

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.