{"product_id":"russia-on-the-edge-paperback","title":"Russia on the Edge - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdith W. Clowes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors--whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and border--have become the signs of a different sense of self and the signposts of a new debate about Russian identity. In \u003ci\u003eRussia on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e, Edith W. Clowes argues that refurbished geographical metaphors and imagined geographies provide a useful perspective for examining post-Soviet debates about what it means to be Russian today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClowes lays out several sides of the debate. She takes as a backdrop the strong criticism of Soviet Moscow and its self-image as uncontested global hub by major contemporary writers, among them Tatyana Tolstaya and Viktor Pelevin. The most vocal, visible, and colorful rightist ideologue, Aleksandr Dugin, the founder of neo-Eurasianism, has articulated positions contested by such writers and thinkers as Mikhail Ryklin, Liudmila Ulitskaia, and Anna Politkovskaia, whose works call for a new civility in a genuinely pluralistic Russia. Dugin's extreme views and their many responses--in fiction, film, philosophy, and documentary journalism--form the body of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRussia on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e, literary and cultural critics will find the keys to a vital post-Soviet writing culture. For intellectual historians, cultural geographers, and political scientists the book is a guide to the variety of post-Soviet efforts to envision new forms of social life, even as a reconstructed authoritarianism has taken hold. The book introduces nonspecialist readers to some of the most creative and provocative of present-day Russia's writers and public intellectuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdith W. Clowes is the Brown-Forman Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Slavic Languages \u0026amp; Literatures at the University of Virginia. Her previous books include\u003ci\u003e Fiction's Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of \u003c\/i\u003ePhilosophy, also from Cornell, Doctor\u003ci\u003e Zhivago: A Critical Companion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Revolution of Moral Consciousness: Nietzsche and Russian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology after Utopia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723030106175,"sku":"9780801477256","price":86.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5b8f3821819e859d71c8a51b23d0ea4d.webp?v=1765097771","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/russia-on-the-edge-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}