Russia's Regional Identities : The Power of the Provinces / edited by Edith W. Clowes, Gisela Erbslöh and Ani Kokobobo. - First edition. - Oxon : Routledge, 2018. - xiii, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series ; .

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.

9781138201026 (hardback)


Group identity--Provinces.--Russian (Federation)
Regionalism--Russia (Federation)


Russia (Federation)--Civilization--21st century.

947.086 / Q8