TY - BOOK AU - Clowes,Edith W. TI - Russia on the edge: imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity T2 - Cornell paperbacks SN - 9780801448560 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - PG 3027 C648r 2011 U1 - 891.73 PY - 2011/// CY - Ithaca, N.Y. PB - Cornell University Press KW - Russian literature KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - National characteristics, Russian, in literature KW - Nationalism and literature KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Cultural geography KW - Territory, National KW - Literatura rusa KW - Historia y crítica KW - Siglo 20 KW - Siglo 21 KW - Intellectual life KW - 1991- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : is Russia a center or a periphery? -- Deconstructing imperial Moscow -- Postmodernist empire meets Holy Rus : how Aleksandr Dugin tried to change the Eurasian periphery into the sacred center of the world -- Illusory empire : Viktor Pelevin's parody of neo-Eurasianism -- Russia's deconstructionist westernizer : Mikhail Ryklin's "larger space of Europe" confronts Holy Rus -- The periphery and its narratives : Liudmila Ulitskaia's imagined south -- Demonizing the post-Soviet other : the Chechens and the Muslim south ER -