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This study is highly original, timely, and important. The Putin Administration has used history selectively to create new national narratives and forge patriotic unity. Donovan shows that this has been a process with a history of its own. -- Karl D. Qualls, author of <I>From Ruins to Reconstruction</I> What makes this study so valuable is that it combines a number of methodologies in fruitful ways-ethnography, oral history, architectural history, and cultural studies/ cultural anthropology. With these tools Victoria Donovan has managed to answer difficult questions, particularly about the Soviet roots of Russia's current wave of ultranationalism. -- Edith W. Clowes, University of Virginia, author of<I> Area Studies in the Global Age</I>

What makes this study so valuable is that it combines a number of methodologies in fruitful ways-ethnography, oral history, architectural history, and cultural studies/ cultural anthropology. With these tools Victoria Donovan has managed to answer difficult questions, particularly about the Soviet roots of Russia's current wave of ultranationalism. -- Edith W. Clowes, University of Virginia, author of<I> Area Studies in the Global Age</I> This study is highly original, timely, and important. The Putin Administration has used history selectively to create new national narratives and forge patriotic unity. Donovan shows that this has been a process with a history of its own. -- Karl D. Qualls, author of <I>From Ruins to Reconstruction</I>

Victoria Donovan's book on preservation, architecture, and regional identity in Northwest Russia provides a useful corrective to works that have looked at the attempts to preserve medieval and folk Russian architecture as an episode mainly in Russian nationalism and chauvinism. * The Russian Review * Chronicles in Stone tells us a great deal, not only about patriotism and the imagined nation but also of how historical memory is curated by regional actors, as well as the struggles and deal-making between the political centre and the periphery. * Europe-Asia Studies *

Victoria Donovan's book on preservation, architecture, and regional identity in Northwest Russia provides a useful corrective to works that have looked at the attempts to preserve medieval and folk Russian architecture as an episode mainly in Russian nationalism and chauvinism. * The Russian Review * Chronicles in Stone tells us a great deal, not only about patriotism and the imagined nation but also of how historical memory is curated by regional actors, as well as the struggles and deal-making between the political centre and the periphery. * Europe-Asia Studies * The combination of archival and socio-anthropological research, oral history, and observation work (the authortoured many heritage sites with her hosts and friends) provides a firm basis for understanding architectural reconstruction and its consequences through local voices and memory, as well as the reception of nation-building discourse on the ground. * Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) *

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Victoria Donovan is a Senior Lecturer in Russian and Director of the Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and East European Studies at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of research articles in Antropologicheskii forum, Slavic Review, Slavonica and Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. She is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award holder.

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