Writing Russia : the discursive construction of anOther nation / Melissa-Ellen Dowling.
"Writing Russia offers the first systematic analysis of Anglophone national histories of Russia. By deconstructing preeminent historical works on the history of Russia, this book provides insight into the hidden ideological underpinnings of the texts and their representations of Russia in the W...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group,
2021.
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| Series: | Routledge approaches to history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: writing Russia
- Discourse, power, nation: approaches to deconstructing national histories
- Othering Russia in historical accounts of the Mongol conquest
- Romancing Russia and questioning the applicability of the Oriental paradigm
- The language of nationality in histories of World War II
- Securitising Putin's Russia
- A discordic narrativisation of the Russian nation and the necessity of tragic emplotment
- A short annotated history of Russian authoritarianism
- Conclusion: representing and reifying Russia.