Space, place, and power in modern Russia
Subtitle: essays in the new spatial history
By: edited by Mark Bassin, Christopher Ely, and Melissa K. Stockdale.
Contributors: Bassin, Mark.; Ely, Christopher David, 1963-; Stockdale, Melissa Kirschke.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780875804255
Subjects: Space -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History; Space -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History; Landscape -- Social aspects -- Russia -- History; Landscape -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History; Political culture -- Russia -- History; Power (Social sciences) -- Russia -- History; Human geography -- Russia -- History; Russia -- History; Russia -- Politics and government; Russia -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Geopolitical constructions of space; title: What is a fatherland? : changing notions of duty, rights, and belonging in Russia / Melissa K. Stockdale; title: Nationhood, natural regions, mestorazvitie : environmental discourses in classical Eurasianism / Mark Bassin; title: pt. 2. Place, space, and power; title: Russian route : the politics of the Petersburg-Moscow road, 1700-1800 / John Randolph; title: On the dance floor : royal power, class, and nationality in servile Russia / Richard Stites; title: Ab oriente ad ulteriorem orientem : Eugene Schuyler, Russia, and Central Asia / Patricia Herlihy; title: Soviet agitational vehicles : Bolsheviks in strange places / Robert Argenbright; title: pt. 3. Place, identity, and memory; title: Street space and political culture in St. Petersburg under Alexander II / Christopher Ely; title: Making and unmaking the "sacred landscape" of Orthodox Russia : identity crisis and religious politics in the Ukrainian provinces of the late Russian Empire / Sergei Zhuk; title: Dilemmas of post-Soviet identity in Vologda : a sacred landscape in Moscow's political shadow / Cathy A. Frierson; title: Place, memory, and the politics of identity : historical buildings and street names in Leningrad-St. Petersburg / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum.