ISBN:
041560415X
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9781136848254
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9780415604154
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9781283462907
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 264 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding Russianness
DDC:
306.0947
Keywords:
Ethnicity - Russia (Federation)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
In today's world where other cultures are being tapped to a greater extent than ever before, the processes of mixing and matching are especially relevant in making sense of Russia. Not only do borrowing and assimilation, interaction between the familiar and the alien, constitute a venerable tradition in Russian culture, but during the two last post-Soviet decades a notable Western influence has become apparent. This book provides means for understanding Russianness in this new situation. By bringing together Russian and Western, eminent and younger scholars it provides insights both from insid
Description / Table of Contents:
Understanding Russianness; Copyright; Contents; List of tables and figures; Notes on the contributors; Introduction; PART I Language; 1 The 'West' in the linguistic construction of Russianness in contemporary public discourse; 2 Attitudes toward the Russian and English languages in Russia and the United States: perceptions of self and the other; 3 Russification of Western concepts: political will and crisis in a Russian way; 4 A Russian view of Western concepts; PART II Society; 5 Russian 'otherness': from Chaadaev to the present day
Description / Table of Contents:
6 From a mother's worry to Soldiers' Mothers' action: building collective action on personal concerns7 Opposition substitutes: reflections on the collective action in support of the European University at St Petersburg; 8 Political culture in Russia from a local perspective; 9 Soviet modernity: the case of Soviet fashion; PART III Culture; 10 Spiritus loci: two East Karelian folklore epic traditions; 11 Autogenesis in Russian culture: an approach to the avant-garde; 12 Two hundred years of poshlost': a historical sketch of the concept
Description / Table of Contents:
13 The notion of universal bisexuality in Russian religious philosophy14 Religious nationalism in contemporary Russia: the case of the Ossetian ethnic religious project; 15 Social networking on the internet: is the Russian way special?; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Available via World Wide Web
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