RabowEdling undertakes an important and needed task namely the reexaminationof the hoary WesternizerSlavophile debate in light of current thinking aboutnational... » 

RabowEdling undertakes an important and needed task namely the reexaminationof the hoary WesternizerSlavophile debate in light of current thinking aboutnationalism. The result is an absorbing intelligent succinct and utterlypersuasive description of the Slavophiles and their place in Russian andEuropean ideas. She supplies evidence that Russian experience was fundamentallywithin the realm of European historya controversial idea that makes the bookexciting reading. «