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Filosofi & religion

Russia on the Edge

Edith Clowes

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  • 274 sidor
  • 2020
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 metaphorswhether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and borderhave 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. Dugins extreme views and their many responsesin fiction, film, philosophy, and documentary journalismform the body of this book.
  • Författare: Edith Clowes
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781644693209
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 274
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-08-04
  • Översättare: Andrei Razin
  • Förlag: Academic Studies Press