Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922
Shredding the Map investigates Russian place consciousness in the decade between the start of World War I and the end of the Russian civil war. Attachment to place is a vital aspect of human identity, and connection to homeland, whether imagined or real, can be especially powerful. Drawing from a large digital database of period literature, Shredding the Map investigates the metamorphic changes in how Russians related to places–whether abstractions like “country” or concrete spaces of borders, fronts, and edgelands–during these years.

An innovative, digitally-aided study of Russia’s “imagined geography” during the early decades of the twentieth century, Shredding the Map uncovers vying emotional patterns and responses to Russian ideas of place, some familiar and some quite new. The book includes new visualizations that connect otherwise invisible networks of shared place, feeling, and perception among dozens of writers in order to trace patterns of geospatial identity. A scholarly companion to the “Mapping Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia” website and database, this book offers an innovative analysis of place and identity beyond the centers of power, enhancing our perceptions of Russia and encouraging debate about the possibilities for digital humanities and literary analysis.
 
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Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922
Shredding the Map investigates Russian place consciousness in the decade between the start of World War I and the end of the Russian civil war. Attachment to place is a vital aspect of human identity, and connection to homeland, whether imagined or real, can be especially powerful. Drawing from a large digital database of period literature, Shredding the Map investigates the metamorphic changes in how Russians related to places–whether abstractions like “country” or concrete spaces of borders, fronts, and edgelands–during these years.

An innovative, digitally-aided study of Russia’s “imagined geography” during the early decades of the twentieth century, Shredding the Map uncovers vying emotional patterns and responses to Russian ideas of place, some familiar and some quite new. The book includes new visualizations that connect otherwise invisible networks of shared place, feeling, and perception among dozens of writers in order to trace patterns of geospatial identity. A scholarly companion to the “Mapping Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia” website and database, this book offers an innovative analysis of place and identity beyond the centers of power, enhancing our perceptions of Russia and encouraging debate about the possibilities for digital humanities and literary analysis.
 
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Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922

Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922

by Edith Clowes
Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922

Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922

by Edith Clowes

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Shredding the Map investigates Russian place consciousness in the decade between the start of World War I and the end of the Russian civil war. Attachment to place is a vital aspect of human identity, and connection to homeland, whether imagined or real, can be especially powerful. Drawing from a large digital database of period literature, Shredding the Map investigates the metamorphic changes in how Russians related to places–whether abstractions like “country” or concrete spaces of borders, fronts, and edgelands–during these years.

An innovative, digitally-aided study of Russia’s “imagined geography” during the early decades of the twentieth century, Shredding the Map uncovers vying emotional patterns and responses to Russian ideas of place, some familiar and some quite new. The book includes new visualizations that connect otherwise invisible networks of shared place, feeling, and perception among dozens of writers in order to trace patterns of geospatial identity. A scholarly companion to the “Mapping Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia” website and database, this book offers an innovative analysis of place and identity beyond the centers of power, enhancing our perceptions of Russia and encouraging debate about the possibilities for digital humanities and literary analysis.
 

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ISBN-13: 9781943208784
Publisher: Amherst College Press
Publication date: 09/10/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 218
File size: 180 MB
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About the Author

Edith W. Clowes holds the Brown-Forman Chair in the Humanities in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, where she teaches Russian language, literature, and culture, and Czech literature and film. She is author or editor of fifteen books, volumes, and special journal numbers, including Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity (Cornell, 2011; Russian translation, 2020), and, with Shelly Jarrett Bromberg, the volume Area Studies in the Global Age: Community, Place, Identity (Northern Illinois University Press, 2016).

Table of Contents

Contents Preface Introduction 1. Tsarist Holy Rus’: Hallowed Place and Hollowed Imagined Geography 2. Fronts and Roads: How Liminal Space Undermines Emotional Regimes 3. Revolution and Revelation: Civil- War Russia, the Bolsheviks, and the Idea of Holy Ground 4. Home Pride: Regional Loyalties 5. Uncanny Russia: Geographies of Alienation 6. The Bolshevik Land of the Soviets: Imagined Geography and Emotional Regime Conclusion: The Suppressed Force of Russia’s Imagined Geographies of War and Revolution References Bibliography Index
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