Russia's regional museums : representing and misrepresenting knowledge about nature, history and society
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Russia's regional museums : representing and misrepresenting knowledge about nature, history and society
(BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies / series editor, Richard Sakwa, 11)
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book presents the results of extensive research into the very interesting phenomenon of local museums-kraevedschskyi museums-in Russia's regions. It outlines how numerous such museums are, how long they have existed, what they display, and how this has changed, or not, from Soviet times up to the present. It shows how the museums' displays often are about nature, history, and society. It goes on to discuss how what is portrayed represents particular interpretations of knowledge- including the heroism of the Soviet past, a colonial-style view of Russia's very many non-Russian people, and the failure to mention things which might present Russia in a critical way. The book is much more than 'museum studies': it sheds a great deal of light on how Russians think about themselves and about how this self-view is fostered, and it also highlights the vast regional differences which exist in Russia.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements Note on transliteration List of figures Introduction 1 Cultural myths and common silences in (post-)Soviet museums 2 'Ask anyone
- it's just around the corner': kraevedenie museums in the Russian cityscape 3 A brief overview of the history of Russian regional museums 4 'Arctic tundra. Forest. Desert': constructing nature in kraevedenie museums 5 Nature-human relations in contemporary kraevedenie museums 6 'From ancient times to the present day': the construction of history 7 Representations of the Great Terror: from denial to understanding? 8 'A northern man with a harpoon': representing a socialist society and creating 'others' 9 Creating 'the other' in contemporary Russian kraevedenie museums 10 Creating (post-)Soviet taxonomies: cultural myths and 'common unsaids' Index
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