Overview
Exploring the creation, transformation, and imagination of Russian space as a lens through which to understand Russia's development over the centuries, this volume makes an important contribution to Russian studies and the ""new spatial history."" It considers aspects of the relationship between place and power in Russia from the local level to the national and from the eighteenth century through the present. Essays include: Melissa K. Stockdale, ""What is a Fatherland? Changing Notions of Duty, Rights and Belonging in Russia""; Mark Bassin, ""Nationhood, Natural Regions, Mestorazvitie: Environmental Discourses in Classic Eurasianism""; John Randolph, ""Russian Route: The Politics of the Petersburg-Moscow Road, 1700-1800""; Richard Stites, ""On the Dance Floor: Royal Power, Class, and Nationality in Servile Russia""; Patricia Herlihy, ""Ab Oriente ad Ultimum Oriente: Eugen Scuyler, Russia and Central Asia""; Robert Argenbright, ""Soviet Agitational Vehicles: Colonization from Place to Place""; Christopher Ely, ""Street Space and Political Culture under Alexander II""; Sergei Zhuk, ""Unmaking the Sacred Landscape of Orthodox Russia: Religious Pluralism, Identity Crisis, and Religious Politics on the Ukrainian Borderlands of the late Russian Empire""; Cathy A. Frierson, ""Filling in the Map for Vologda's Post-Soviet Identity""; and Lisa A, ""Kirschenbaum, Place, Memory and the Politics of Identity: Historical Buildings and Street Names in Leningrad-St. Petersburg.""
Full Product Details
Author: Mark Bassin ,
Christopher Ely ,
Melissa K Stockdale
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.907kg
ISBN: 9780875807980
ISBN 10: 0875807984
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 26 November 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
By focusing on space and place, the essays in this volume open aspects of Russian history that have evaded the historian\u2019s gaze and give us a new sense of the visual and emotional realities of the Russian past. --Richard Wortman, Columbia University
By focusing on space and place, the essays in this volume open aspects of Russian history that have evaded the historian's gaze and give us a new sense of the visual and emotional realities of the Russian past. -Richard Wortman, Columbia University
By focusing on space and place, the essays in this volume open aspects of Russian history that have evaded the historian\u2019s gaze and give us a new sense of the visual and emotional realities of the Russian past. -Richard Wortman, Columbia University
Author Information
Mark Bassin is Baltic Sea Professor of the History of Ideas, Södertörn University, Stockholm, and author of The Gumilev Mystique and Imperial Visions. Christopher Ely is associate professor of history in the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University and author of This Meager Nature Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia and Underground Petersburg. Melissa K. Stockdale is a Brian and Sandra O'Brien Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma and author of Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1880–1918 and Mobilizing the Russian Nation.
