"Rabow-Edling undertakes an important and needed task, namely the reexamination of the hoary Westernizer/Slavophile debate in light of current thinking about nationalism. The result is an absorbing, intelligent, succinct, and utterly persuasive description of the Slavophiles and their place in Russian and European ideas. She supplies evidence that Russian experience was fundamentally within the realm of European history--a controversial idea that makes the book exciting reading."