Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Framing Russia's Regions -- The Six Waves of Russian Regionalism in European Context, 1830-2000 -- Provinces, Regions, Circles, Grids: How Literature Has Shaped Russian Geographical Identity -- Part II: Rethinking European Russian Identities -- Militarized Memory: Patriotic Re-branding in Post-Soviet Pskov -- Wayfinding, Map-making and the Holy Springs of the Orel Region -- How is Voronezh not Paris? -- City Branding in the Russian Provinces -- Part III: Russian Identities in the Urals -- The Strange Case of a Regional Cultural Revolution: Sverdlovsk in the Perestroika Years -- Enchanted Geographies: Aleksei Ivanov and the Aesthetic Management of Ural Regional Identity -- Part IV: Russian Identities in Siberia -- Siberian Regional Identity: Self-perception, Solidarity, or Political Claim? -- Tomsk Regional Identity and the Legacy of the Gulag and Stalinist Repression -- Part V: Regional Identities outside the Orthodox Zone -- National Identity in Post-Soviet Tatarstan: Orthodox Missionaries in Twenty-First Century Tatar Literature and Film -- Women, Memory, and Resistance: Dealing with the Soviet Past in the Volga-Ural Region -- Why Does Russia Need Hadji Murat's Head? -- Hadji Murat, Dagestani Identity, and Russia's Colonial Exploits.