LEADER 04859nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910821314103321 005 20240416113225.0 010 $a0-8014-6114-6 010 $a0-8014-6066-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460661 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036200 035 $a(OCoLC)732957154 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468057 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541002 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11367181 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541002 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10493201 035 $a(PQKB)10845240 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495649 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138178 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28742 035 $a(DE-B1597)478359 035 $a(OCoLC)979743872 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460661 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138178 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468057 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL768976 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036200 100 $a20100930d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRussia on the edge $eimagined geographies and post-Soviet identity /$fEdith W. Clowes 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca, N.Y. $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (199 p.) 225 0 $aCornell paperbacks 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7725-5 311 $a0-8014-4856-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aSince 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. 606 $aRussian literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRussian literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, Russian, in literature 606 $aNationalism and literature$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aCultural geography$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aTerritory, National$zRussia (Federation) 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xIntellectual life$y1991- 615 0$aRussian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRussian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Russian, in literature. 615 0$aNationalism and literature 615 0$aCultural geography 615 0$aTerritory, National 676 $a891.709/35847 700 $aClowes$b Edith W$01682143 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821314103321 996 $aRussia on the edge$94052030 997 $aUNINA