In Search of the True Russia

The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse

von Lyudmila Parts

216 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Russia's provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation's cultural imagination. Popular culture has increasingly turned from the newly prosperous, multiethnic, and westernized Moscow to celebrate the hinterlands as repositories of national traditions and moral strength. Lyudmila Parts argues that this change has directed debate about Russia's identity away from its loss of imperial might and global prestige and toward a hermetic national identity based on the opposition of "us vs. us" rather than "us vs. them." In Search of the True Russia offers an intriguing analysis of the contemporary debate over what it means to be Russian.

• Reihe: University of Wisconsin Press
• ISBN: 9780299317645
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2020
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press