Understanding Russianness

ISBN-13: 9780415604154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 280 str.

Risto Alapuro;Arto Mustajoki;Pekka Pesonen

Opis

This book brings together Russian and Western, eminent and younger scholars to provide a fresh and provocative approach to a variety of interrelated fields in Russian studies.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Language  1. The 'West' in the Linguistic Construction of Russianness in Contemporary Public Discourse  2. Attitudes toward the Russian and English Languages in Russia and the United States: Perceptions of Self and Other  3. Russification of Western Concepts: Political Will and Crisis in a Russian way  4. A Russian View of Western Concepts  Part 2: Society  5. Russian 'Otherness': From Chaadaev to the Present Day  6. From a Mother's Worry to Soldiers' Mothers Action: Building Collective Action on Personal Concerns  7. Opposition Substitutes: Reflections on the Collective Action in Support of the European University at St. Petersburg  8. Political Culture in Russia in a Local Perspective  9. Soviet Modernity: The Case of Soviet Fashion  Part 3: Culture  10. Spiritus Loci: Two East Karelian Fokelore Epic Traditions  11. Autogenesis in Russian Culture: An Approach to the Avant-Garde  12. Two Hundred years of Poshlost: A Historical Sketch of the Concept  13. The Notion of Universal Bisexuality in Russian Religious Philosophy  14. Religious Nationalism in Contemporary Russia: The Case of the Ossetian Ethnic Religious Project  15. Social Networking on the Internet: Is the Russian Way Special?