Travelling Across a Post-imperial Space
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Year: 2025

Abstract This chapter outlines the specific transnational context in which memory-making in Russian tourism unfolds, based on the idea of the post-Soviet space as a ‘post-imperial space’. The notion of a post-imperial space is used for several reasons. First, it centres the attention on Russia’s historical status as an empire and its relation to its former territories, allowing a close examination of the role of the past in the present. Second, the notion of a post-imperial space is based on a l