Space, Place, and Power in Modern Russia: Essays in the New Spatial History (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) - Hardcover

Mark Bassin; Christopher Ely; Melissa K Stockdale

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087580425X ISBN 13: 9780875804255

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Exploring the creation, transformation, and imagination of Russian space as a lens through which to understand Russia's development over the centuries, this volume makes an important contribution to Russian studies and the "new spatial history." It considers aspects of the relationship between place and power in Russia from the local level to the national and from the 18th century through the present. Essays include: Melissa K. Stockdale, "What is a Fatherland? Changing Notions of Duty, Rights and Belonging in Russia". Mark Bassin, "Nationhood, Natural Regions, Mestorazvitie: Environmental Discourses in Classic Eurasianism". John Randolph, "Russian Route: The Politics of the Petersburg-Moscow Road, 1700-1800". Richard Stites, "On the Dance Floor: Royal Power, Class, and Nationality in Servile Russia". Patricia Herlihy, "Ab Oriente ad Ultimum Oriente: Eugen Scuyler, Russia and Central Asia". Robert Argenbright, "Soviet Agitational Vehicles: Colonization from Place to Place". Christopher Ely, "Street Space and Political Culture under Alexander II". Sergei Zhuk, "Unmakinig the 'Sacred Landscape' of Orthodox Russia: Religious Pluralism, Identity Crisis, and Religious Politics on the Ukrainian Borderlands of the late Russian Empire". Cathy A. Frierson, "Filling in the Map for Vologda's Post-Soviet Identity". Lisa A, Kirschenbaum, "Place, Memory and the Politics of Identity: Historical Buildings and Street Names in Leningrad-St. Petersburg".

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Review:

"By focusing on space and place, the essays in this volume open aspects of Russian history that have evaded the historian's gaze and give us a new sense of the visual and emotional realities of the Russian past."-Richard Wortman, Columbia University

About the Author:

Mark Bassin is Baltic Sea Professor of the History of Ideas, S dert rn University, Stockholm, and author of The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia and Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865. Christopher Ely is associate professor of history in the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University and author of This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia and Underground Petersburg: Radical Populism, Urban Space, and the Tactics of Subversion in Reform-Era Russia. Melissa K. Stockdale is a Brian and Sandra O'Brien Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma and author of Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1880-1918 and Mobilizing the Russian Nation: Patriotism and Citizenship in the First World War.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 087580425X
• ISBN 13: 9780875804255
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250