"Ethno-Nationalism" is not the word I'd use to describe it. The question is broad and difficult to answer but I can out a few examples of what I mean. [0] Lots

"Ethno-Nationalism" is not the word I'd use to describe it. The question is broad and difficult to answer but I can out a few examples of what I mean. [0] Lots of ideas about Russia's unique place in the world and why they're better than others (e.g. Dostoyevsky on why Russian Orthodoxy was better than other forms of religion). Most of these writers had spent time in the west, did not hold high opinions of it, and were vaguely Slavophiles. [1] There was a reason Dostoyevsky returned to Russia after living in France for some time, even after going to Siberia. Solzhenitsyn did write about other ethnic groups in the Gulags and these often get misinterpreted in their English translations as "kind and meek" whereas their Russian originals would imply something more like "Good-natured simpleton." [2] He, of course, wrote far more controversial books, to put it mildly, but I won't link to those here. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_soul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_soul [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavophilia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavophilia [2]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43210399 https://www.jstor.org/stable/43210399