He maintained his Russian Jewish identity, but a new emotional urgency gripped him, the plight of local workers and the poor.

At the start of the 18th century, Russian national identity was in its infancy and not distinct from the state.

I found my Russian identity subsumed by that of my adopted country.

She says her husband, a construction foreman, cannot get a promotion because of his Russian identity.

He values the idea of God and feels that religion is equal to the Russian identity.

For Ulitskaya's book is also a meditation on Russian identity and the degree to which that identity can be sustained.

"That information the Americans gave us about the Harpooner's Russian identity has proved very useful."

The war occupies a singular place in the Russian national identity that is hard for Americans to appreciate.

All the different representation of the Russian heroes helped define and spread the belief in Russian identity.

Now when the map has been totally changed, the outlines are nonetheless emerging of a new, more positive concept of a distinctive Russian identity.