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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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.