Russians as Asiatics: Memory about the Present

Dmitry Shlapentokh

European Review, 2013, vol. 21, issue 1, 41-55

Abstract: History as recorded very often follows the desire of political pragmatists. Nineteenth-century French views of Russia are a good example. France was in conflict with Russia through most of that century. As racism grew across Europe, French historians presented Russians as brutish Asiatics and a mortal threat to civilized Europe. The Russo-French alliance in 1894 changed these views, but the stereotypes continued to hibernate in the collective subconscious of the West to be resurrected in times of political expediency.

Date: 2013
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