Russian exceptionalism between East and West : the ambiguous empire / / Kevork Oskanian

• Autore: Oskanian Kevork <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 pages)
• Disciplina: 307.12
• Soggetto topico: Regionalism - Social aspects
• Soggetto geografico: Russia (Federation) Relations
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Structure of the Book -- References -- 2 Conceptualising an Empire in Between -- Introduction -- Empires Between the Objective and Intersubjective -- Enter Saïd -- Russia's Hybrid-Exceptionalist Empires -- Introducing Hybrid Exceptionalism -- Exceptionalism -- Hybridity -- Hybrid Exceptionalism -- A Note on Method -- References -- 3 Hybrid Exceptionalism Under the Romanovs -- Introduction -- Debating Modernity -- Managing Empire, to the East and to the West -- Thinking the 'Empire' In Between -- In-Between Manifest Orientalisms -- Thinking the West Away -- Russian Art and Empire between Orient and Occident -- Imagining the Orient -- Picturing Western Borderlands -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Soviet Union as a Hybrid Civilising Project -- Introduction -- An Anti-imperialist Empire -- Marxism-Leninism and the Question of Nationality -- Hierarchy and Soviet Nationalities Policy -- Restoring Russia -- Socialist Empire as Civilising Mission -- A Very Hierarchical Union -- Nativisation as Civilising Mission -- The Return of Great Russia -- The Scientific Way of 'Emancipation' -- Soviet Imaginings of East and West -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Hybrid Exceptionalism in Contemporary Russia -- Introduction -- Chaos and Flux: Russian Worldviews in the Nineties -- Hybrid Exceptionalism Redux -- Feigning Liberalism -- Constructing Difference -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Looking East, Looking West -- Introduction -- Russia's Continuing Orientalist Gaze -- Russia's Western Fears -- The Scientific Way of Hierarchy -- Art, Hierarchy, and In-Betweenness -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Conclusion: Beyond Empire's Shadow -- Introduction -- Russia Between Empire and Reality -- Between Continuity and Change -- Russia Today -- Matching Values and Reality. ; Emancipation Through Critical Engagement -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Russian exceptionalism between East and West
• ISBN: 3-030-69713-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910488694803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II