in the campaign “Formation of the Ideology of Great-Power Chauvinism (1864–1876)”
The systematic imposition of the metropole's logic of superiority. Researchers reconstruct Katkov's logic thus: "a nation must be a tribe capable of creating a state; only a state nation can establish order in a given territory; tribes incapable of creating a state have to submit to the state nation"[1]. Katkov himself wrote: "In the recognition of a nation the question of power, of government, of the state is decided"[1]. Hrushevsky records both the thesis and its reach: Valuev invoked an imaginary "majority of Little Russians" who allegedly "know neither a Ukrainian nationality nor language, only one Russian people and tongue," while the ideology's mouthpieces carried it to the formula "there are no Ruthenians — there is only one 'Russian people' from the Carpathians to Kamchatka"[2].