The six waves of Russian regionalism in European context, 1830–2000

There were six waves of regionalism in Russia and in Western Europe. Russia was in step with the West until Stalin’s reign. In the 1830s, cultural regionalism emerged in Russia and the West. In the 1860s, Siberia provided one of the earliest examples of political regionalism in Europe. The 1890s were a high point of cultural regionalism in the East and West, and the 1920s were a regionalist feast in both. After Stalin, the two diverged, with flourishing political regionalism in the European Union by the 1970s, contrasting with a weaker Soviet cultural regionalism. The wave of the 2000s underlined the contrast.