Russia on the edge
Subtitle: imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity
By: Edith W. Clowes
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780801448560; 9780801477256
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : is Russia a center or a periphery?; title: Deconstructing imperial Moscow; title: Postmodernist empire meets Holy Rus : how Aleksandr Dugin tried to change the Eurasian periphery into the sacred center of the world; title: Illusory empire : Viktor Pelevin's parody of neo-Eurasianism; title: Russia's deconstructionist westernizer : Mikhail Ryklin's "larger space of Europe" confronts Holy Rus; title: The periphery and its narratives : Liudmila Ulitskaia's imagined south; title: Demonizing the post-Soviet other : the Chechens and the Muslim south.