In search of the true Russia : the provinces in contemporary nationalist discourse
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In search of the true Russia : the provinces in contemporary nationalist discourse
The University of Wisconsin Press, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction: Imagining the Provinces
1 Journalism: "We Look for Wealth in the Provinces and Find It There!"
2 Literature: In the Provincial State of Mind
3 Film and TV: "My Country-My Moscow!"
Conclusion: On Cultural Authenticity
Notes
Bibliography
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