Part 1. The Status of National Identity: Introduction: national subjects / Mark Bassin and Catriona Kelly; 1. The contradictions of identity: being Soviet and national in the USSR and after / Ronald Grigor Suny; 2. Tales told by nationalists / Nancy Condee -- Part II. Institutions of National Identity: 3. National identity through visions of the past: contemporary Russian cinema / Birgit Beumers; 4. Archaizing culture: the Museum of Ethnography / Dmitry Baranov; 5. Rituals of identity: the Soviet passport / Albert Baiburin -- Part III. Myths of National Identity: 6. 'If the war comes tomorrow': patriotic education in Soviet and post-Soviet primary school / Vitaly Bezrogov; 7. Conquering space: the cult of Yuri Gagarin / Andrew Jenks; 8. Nation-construction in post-Soviet Central / Asia Sergei Abashin -- Part IV. Spaces of National Identity: 9. Soviet and post-Soviet Moscow: literary reality or nightmare? / Dina Khapaeva; 10. From the USSR to the Orient: national and ethnic symbols in the city text of Elista / Elza-Bair Guchinova; 11. The place(s) of Islam in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia / Victoria Arnold -- Part V. Languages of National Identity: 12. Language culture and identity in post-Soviet Russia: the economies of Mat / Michael Gorham; 13. Policies and practices of language education in post-Soviet Central Asia: between ethnic identity and civic consciousness / Olivier Ferrando; 14. Surviving in the time of deficit: the narrative construction of a 'Soviet identity' / Anna Kushkova -- Part VI. Creeds of National Identity: 15. Competing orthodoxies: identity and religious belief in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia / Catriona Kelly; 16. 'Popular orthodoxy' and identity in twentieth-century Russia: ideology, consumption and competition / Alexander Panchenko; 17. Religious affiliation and the politics of post-Soviet identity: the case of Belarus / Galina Miazhevich
Summary
A fresh look at post-Soviet Russia and Eurasia and at the Soviet historical background that shaped the present
