Russia's Regional Identities

Abstract

Table of Contents 0. Introduction (Edith W. Clowes, Gisela Erbsloeh, and Ani Kokobobo) Part I: Framing Russia's Regions 1. The Six Waves of Russian Regionalism in European Context, 1830-2000 (Susan Smith- Peter) 2. Provinces, Regions, Circles, Grids: How Literature Has Shaped Russian Geographical (Anne Lounsbery) Part II: Rethinking European Russian Identities 3. Militarized Memory: Patriotic Re-branding in Post-Soviet Pskov (Victoria Donovan) 4. Wayfinding, Map-making and the Holy Springs of the Orel Region (Jane Costlow) 5. 'How is Voronezh not Paris?' City Branding in the Russian Provinces (Lyudmila Parts) Part III: Russian Identities in the Urals 6. The Strange Case of a Regional Cultural Revolution: Sverdlovsk in the Perestroika Years (Mark Lipovetsky) 7. Enchanted Geographies: Aleksei Ivanov and the Aesthetic Management of Ural Regional (Bradley Gorski) Part IV: Russian Identities in Siberia 8. Siberian Regional Identity: Self-Perception, Solidarity, or Political Claim? (Alla Anisimova, Olga Echevskaya) 9. Tomsk Regional Identity and the Legacy of the Gulag and Stalinist Repression (Wilson T. Bell) Part V: Regional Identities outside the Orthodox Zone 10. National Identity in Post-Soviet Tatarstan: Orthodox Missionaries in Twenty-First Century Tatar Literature and Film (John Romero) 11. Women, Memory, and Resistance: Dealing with the Soviet Past in the Volga-Ural Region (Yulia Gradskova) 12. 'Why Does Russia Need Hadji Murat's Head?' Hadji Murat, Dagestani Identity, and Russia's Colonial Exploits (Ani Kokobobo) Afterword: The Power of the Provinces (Catherine Evtuhov)