Anton Rubinstein, Alexander Serov, And Vladimir Stasov: The Struggle for a National Musical Identity in Nineteenth-Century Russia (Report‪)‬

Introduction When compared to its tumultuous twentieth-century existence, nineteenth-century Russia seems somewhat docile. In the twentieth, the words Russia and revolution seemed to go hand in hand; some say it is simply the Russians' nature. The roots of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, however, a revolution carried out by Russians over what was perceived to be a corrupt Western-European influenced monarchy, clearly lie in the nineteenth century. In fact, many of the problems concerning national identity that Russia faces today can be traced back to that time.