Russia's Regional Identities gives several examples of recapturing what we can call a “usable past” (Costlow, Romero, Gradskova, and Kokobobo). Since the 1990s, when Western journalists first investigated the new wave of regionalism, ...
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Language: en
Pages: 292
Pages: 292
Contemporary Russia is often viewed as a centralised regime based in Moscow, with dependent provinces, made subservient by Putin’s policies limiting regional autonomy. This book, however, demonstrates that beyond this largely political view, by looking at Russia’s regions more in cultural and social terms, a quite different picture emerges, of
Language: en
Pages: 230
Pages: 230
This title was first published in 2001. This text looks at what being Russian means to a Russian politician, the country they live in and what they think it ought to be. It is a study of self-images in Russia, pertaining to the Russian state policy and the cognitive and
Language: en
Pages: 176
Pages: 176
Bringing together leading scholars from Russia and outside experts on Russia, this book looks at the difference between the image Russia has of itself and the way it is viewed in the West. It discusses the historical, cultural and political foundations that these images are built upon, and goes on
Language: en
Pages: 198
Pages: 198
This compelling set of essays presents richly human stories of individual and group experiences, as well as of key events in the history of Imperial Russia. Beginning with Peter I's dress reforms in the early eighteenth century and concluding with poets arising out of a stratified and largely urban working
Language: en
Pages: 268
Pages: 268
Looking at a variety of countries, this book explores the influence of cultural dimensions on the interrelations between personal and social identity, and the impact of identity salience on attitudes, stereotypes, and the structures of consciousness.