{"product_id":"russia-on-the-edge-imagined-geographies-and-post-soviet-identity-paperback-softback-9780801477256","title":"Russia on the Edge; Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801477256","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRussia on the Edge\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEdith W. Clowes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801477256\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 April 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 1.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSince the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. \u003c\/b\u003eSoviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and border—have become the signs of a different sense of self and the signposts of a new debate about Russian identity. In Russia on the Edge Edith W. Clowes argues that refurbished geographical metaphors and imagined geographies provide a useful perspective for examining post-Soviet debates about what it means to be Russian today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClowes lays out several sides of the debate. She takes as a backdrop the strong criticism of Soviet Moscow and its self-image as uncontested global hub by major contemporary writers, among them Tatyana Tolstaya and Viktor Pelevin. The most vocal, visible, and colorful rightist ideologue, Aleksandr Dugin, the founder of neo-Eurasianism, has articulated positions contested by such writers and thinkers as Mikhail Ryklin, Liudmila Ulitskaia, and Anna Politkovskaia, whose works call for a new civility in a genuinely pluralistic Russia. Dugin's extreme views and their many responses—in fiction, film, philosophy, and documentary journalism—form the body of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Russia on the Edge literary and cultural critics will find the keys to a vital post-Soviet writing culture. For intellectual historians, cultural geographers, and political scientists the book is a guide to the variety of post-Soviet efforts to envision new forms of social life, even as a reconstructed authoritarianism has taken hold. The book introduces nonspecialist readers to some of the most creative and provocative of present-day Russia's writers and public intellectuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Is Russia a Center or a Periphery?\u003cbr\u003e 1. Deconstructing Imperial Moscow\u003cbr\u003e 2. Postmodernist Empire Meets Holy Rus': How Aleksandr Dugin Tried to Change the Eurasian Periphery into the Sacred Center of the World\u003cbr\u003e 3. Illusory Empire: Viktor Pelevin's Parody of Neo-Eurasianism\u003cbr\u003e 4. Russia's Deconstructionist Westernizer: Mikhail Ryklin's \"Larger Space of Europe\" Confronts Holy Rus'\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Periphery and Its Narratives: Liudmila Ulitskaia's Imagined South\u003cbr\u003e 6. Demonizing the Post-Soviet Other: The Chechens and the Muslim South\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702060085528,"sku":"9780801477256","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/russia-on-the-edge-imagined-geographies-and-post-soviet-identity-paperback-softback-9780801477256","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}