Russia on the edge [electronic resource] : imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity / Edith W. Clowes.
Material type: TextPublication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011Description: xviii, 179 p. : ill., mapISBN: 9780801460661 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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) | Russia (Federation) -- Intellectual life -- 1991-Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 891.709/35847 LOC classification: PG3027 | .C57 2011Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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