Clowes, Edith W.

Russia on the edge imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity / [electronic resource] : Edith W. Clowes. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011. - xviii, 179 p. : ill., map.

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.


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2011.
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Russian literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Russian literature--History and criticism.--20th century
National characteristics, Russian, in literature.
Nationalism and literature--Russia (Federation)
Cultural geography--Russia (Federation)
Territory, National--Russia (Federation)


Russia (Federation)--Intellectual life--1991-


Electronic books.

PG3027 / .C57 2011eb

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