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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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Autor principal: Clowes, Edith W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.