04862nam 2200757 a 450 991078124800332120230725051945.00-8014-6114-60-8014-6066-210.7591/9780801460661(CKB)2550000000036200(OCoLC)732957154(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468057(SSID)ssj0000541002(PQKBManifestationID)11367181(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541002(PQKBWorkID)10493201(PQKB)10845240(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495649(MiAaPQ)EBC3138178(MdBmJHUP)muse28742(DE-B1597)478359(OCoLC)979743872(DE-B1597)9780801460661(Au-PeEL)EBL3138178(CaPaEBR)ebr10468057(CaONFJC)MIL768976(EXLCZ)99255000000003620020100930d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrRussia on the edge[electronic resource] imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity /Edith W. ClowesIthaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press20111 online resource (199 p.) Cornell paperbacksBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8014-7725-5 0-8014-4856-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : is Russia a center or a periphery? -- Deconstructing imperial Moscow -- Postmodernist empire meets Holy Rus : how Aleksandr Dugin tried to change the Eurasian periphery into the sacred center of the world -- Illusory empire : Viktor Pelevin's parody of neo-Eurasianism -- Russia's deconstructionist westernizer : Mikhail Ryklin's "larger space of Europe" confronts Holy Rus -- The periphery and its narratives : Liudmila Ulitskaia's imagined south -- Demonizing the post-Soviet other : the Chechens and the Muslim south.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.In 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.Russian literature21st centuryHistory and criticismRussian literature20th centuryHistory and criticismNational characteristics, Russian, in literatureNationalism and literatureRussia (Federation)Cultural geographyRussia (Federation)Territory, NationalRussia (Federation)Russia (Federation)Intellectual life1991-Russian literatureHistory and criticism.Russian literatureHistory and criticism.National characteristics, Russian, in literature.Nationalism and literatureCultural geographyTerritory, National891.709/35847Clowes Edith W1503304MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781248003321Russia on the edge3731601UNINA