Ethnic Origins: Slavs

Migrated from Central Asia in 3^rd or 2^nd millenia BCE

East SlavsRussians, Ukrainians, and Belarussians 

West Slavs Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Wends, or Sorbs

South Slavs Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and Macedonians (Bulgarians, of mixed origin like the Hungarians, speak a Slavic language)

Russia:  National Origins

The Rus
SouthEastern Slavs inhabiting from RosRiver valley

Controversy
Scandinavian/Nordic incursions (Varangians) – to Novgorod (later Kiev)

Germanic influences

First Articulations of Nationalism

Count Sergey Uvarov
Head of St. Petersburg educational district under Nicholas I

3 Bases of Russian National Identity (1832)
orthodox Christianity
autocracy
narodnost (nationality) – belief in Russian national superiority

Policy of Russification over Western territories

Traditional elements of National Identity
Russian Orthodox Church
czarism
        nationalism
        strong connection to the land, nature
        Mother Russia

Earliest Forms of State

1^st Eastern Slav state:Kiev

Prince Svyatoslav
SonVladimir
Converts to Orthodox Christianity 988

Novgorod – burghers, city-state

Mongol invasion 1223

Tatar rule in Central Asia
Islam

Rise of Muscovy
14 Century – Rurikid Muscovy

Ivan III (ruled 1462–1505) 
“gathering of the Russian lands” 

RomanovMuscovy

Empire/Czarism 1600s-1917
    Peter the Great (1689–1725)
    Catherine the Great (1762-1796)

Civil War (1918-1921)

Soviet Union 1917-1990

Russian Federation

Today (2002 census)

Russian 79.8%

Tatar 3.8%

Ukrainian 2%

Bashkir 1.2%

Chuvash 1.1%

other or unspecified 12.1% 

National Extremists

Racism in Russia Today

Poland

Ethnic Origins
    W. Slavic tribe the polanie
pol means field in Polish
    reference to geography of Poland

    Polish ethnic stock
    Mixed with Germanic tribes from the W
    E Slavs from the Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
    Scandinavians (esp. Swedes) from the N

1st United State:
Mieszko I 966
converted to Christianity
Founds the Piast Dynasty

Major competitors, invaders
Teutonic Knights
Tatars

Wladyslaw I reunites in 1320
Kazimierz the Great 1333-1370

Jadwiga marries Wladyslaw II Jagiello 1386
Jagiellonian Dynasty

Defeat the Teutons at Battle of Tannenburg in 1410

16th Century
Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania

Noble Republic 1572-1795
  Elected Monarchy

First Republic/Constitution May 3, 1791
 

Traditional bases of National Identity
   Catholicism, Marianism
   Poland as Christ in Europe
   nationalism (anti-Germanic, anti-Russian)
   land (the Fatherland)
   the Polish family

Today:

Neo-Nationalism in Poland

Phalanx

Polish Euroskeptics