FROM THE NATIONAL HUMILIATION TO THE NATIONAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS: RUSSIAN IDENTITY FORMING FROM THE CRIMEAN WAR TO THE CONGRESS OF BERLIN
Defeat in the war can play a considerable role in the national self-identification through the attempts of national humiliation overcoming. In such situation the Russian empire found itself after Crimean war. Russian national identity was formed in a condition of opposition to the West, when has amplified after the congress of Berlin, that stimulated searches of national identity as "anti-Europe".