| Description |
1 online resource (479 pages) |
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Cummings Center Series |
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Cummings Center series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; 1. The Uses of Memory: The Russian Province in Search of Its Past; The Town and its History; A Town Along the Way; 'One Hundred Versts from the Capital'; The Discourse of Memory; Notes; 2. A Russian City between Two Continents: The Tatars of Orenburg and State Power; Myths of Russian Consciousness; A Window on Asia: The Concept of the City; The Realization of the Idea; Tatar Merchant as Russian Ambassador; Images of Russian and Tatar Commercial Cooperation |
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Orenburg as a Tatar Political CentreThe Orenburg Tatar Minority in the Soviet Period; The Role of the Tatar Communists in the New Soviet State; Orenburg: Symbols and Texts of the Post-Soviet Era; Notes; 3. From Estate to Ethnos: The Changing Nature of Cossack Identity in the Twentieth Century; Revolution and Political Definitions of the Cossackry; The Cossack Estate Becomes the 'Cossack People'; The 'Cossack Idea' in Emigration; 'The Cossackry Has Become Soviet'; Intermezzo: The Second World War; Cossacks under 'Developed Socialism': The Politics of Knowledge |
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The 'Rebirth of the Cossackry' as an Ethnos and a Repressed PeopleNotes; 4. Women Remember World War II; Contextualizing Women's Experience; Russian Women Remember World War II; Struggling for the Past; Notes; 5. The Russian Orthodox Church in a Changing Society; The Beginning of Perestroika and the Revival of the Church; The Pomestnyi Sobor of 1988; The Problem of Canonization; In Search of a New Direction; Ideological Trends in the Church; The New Relationship between Church and State; Russian Orthodox Church and other Faiths; Notes; 6. Toward a Multi-Party System, 1985-93; Introduction |
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The CPSU: From Ideological Crisis to Formal CollapseThe Attempt to Create a 'Non-Party'; Voters' Associations and Pseudo-Parties; Political Parties: Giants Among Dwarfs; The School of Parliamentarianism; Political Parties and the Executive Branch; Conclusion; Notes; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The meaning of Russia's past is in a process of continuous deconstruction, reshaping and negotiation by various social and political groupings. Of the deluge of group memories which have broken loose, this collection focuses on several new voices which have never been heard in Russia in this way before: women, Tatars, Cossacks, as well as the voices of religious and provincial populations. In addition, the volume sheds light on the creation of a multi-party system which paved the way for the expression of particular views and interests and generated much of memory's concepts and language |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135225261 |
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1135225265 |
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