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Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity

by Edith Clowes , Andrei Razin
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781644693209
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Academic Studies Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Academic Studies Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 274
  • Original Price: USD 50.0
  • Language: Russian
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 536 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Russia / Post-Soviet

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet 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. Clowes 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.

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