Reply to Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj ("Rus', Russia and National Identity")

From: Canadian Slavonic Papers | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: Halperin, Charles J | Copyright information

I wish to thank Professor Ilnytzkyj and Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue canadienne des slavistes for permitting me to comment on the issues raised in Ilnytzkyj's review of Franklin and Widdis. My hope was to further the discussion. It remains for readers, including the authors, to decide whether I have succeeded in that goal.

I did not expect to persuade Ilnytzkyj to change his mind, nor am I surprised that I did not do so. That Ilnytzkyj finds "vindication" in my essay (p. 167) refle...

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