Russia on the edge : imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity

Russia on the edge : imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity /

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors-whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitic...

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Main Author: Clowes, Edith W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:Cornell paperbacks.
Subjects:
Since 1900
Russian literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Russian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
Nationalism and literature > Russia (Federation)
Cultural geography > Russia (Federation)
Territory, National > Russia (Federation)
Russians in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Russians in literature
Cultural geography
Intellectual life
National characteristics, Russian, in literature
Nationalism and literature
Russian literature
Territory, National
Ryssland > intellektuellt liv.
Rysk litteratur > 1900-talet > 2000-talet.
Russia (Federation) > Intellectual life > 1991-
Russie > Vie intellectuelle > 1991-
Russia (Federation)
Electronic book.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : is Russia a center or a periphery?
  • Deconstructing imperial Moscow
  • Postmodernist empire meets Holy Rus : how Aleksandr Dugin tried to change the Eurasian periphery into the sacred center of the world
  • Illusory empire : Viktor Pelevin's parody of neo-Eurasianism
  • Russia's deconstructionist westernizer : Mikhail Ryklin's "larger space of Europe" confronts Holy Rus
  • The periphery and its narratives : Liudmila Ulitskaia's imagined south
  • Demonizing the post-Soviet other : the Chechens and the Muslim south.

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