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

Publication Data

• Title Russia on the edge : imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity
• Author Edith W. Clowes
• Publisher Cornell University Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Ithaca, N.Y.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• 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-
• Russia (Federation)

Russia on the edge : imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity by Edith W. Clowes. ISBN 9780801477256. Published by Cornell University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.