Russia on the edge:imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity
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Cornell University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Ithaca, N.Y. |
Publication Dates: | 2011. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cornell paperbacks |
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Carrier Form: | xviii, 179 p.: ill., map ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780801448560 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801448565 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801477256 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801477255 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | I512 |
CLC: | I512.064 |
Call Number: | I512.064/C648 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. |