Space, Place, and Power in Modern Russia: Essays in the New Spatial History

by Mark Bassin, Christopher Ely, Melissa K Stockdale

Overview

Exploring the creation, transformation, and imagination of Russian space as a lens through which to understand Russia's development over the centuries, this volume makes an important contribution to Russian studies and the "new spatial history." It considers aspects of the relationship between place and power in Russia from the local level to the national and from the eighteenth century through the present.

Essays include: Melissa K. Stockdale, "What is a Fatherland? Changing Notions of Duty, Rights and Belonging in Russia"; Mark Bassin, "Nationhood, Natural Regions, Mestorazvitie: Environmental Discourses in Classic Eurasianism"; John Randolph, "Russian Route: The Politics of the Petersburg-Moscow Road, 1700-1800"; Richard Stites, "On the Dance Floor: Royal Power, Class, and Nationality in Servile Russia"; Patricia Herlihy, "Ab Oriente ad Ultimum Oriente: Eugen Scuyler, Russia and Central Asia"; Robert Argenbright, "Soviet Agitational Vehicles: Colonization from Place to Place"; Christopher Ely, "Street Space and Political Culture under Alexander II"; Sergei Zhuk, "Unmaking the Sacred Landscape of Orthodox Russia: Religious Pluralism, Identity Crisis, and Religious Politics on the Ukrainian Borderlands of the late Russian Empire"; Cathy A. Frierson, "Filling in the Map for Vologda's Post-Soviet Identity"; and Lisa A, "Kirschenbaum, Place, Memory and the Politics of Identity: Historical Buildings and Street Names in Leningrad-St. Petersburg."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780875804255
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	06/15/2010
Series:	NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Edition description:	1
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mark Bassin is Baltic Sea Professor of the History of Ideas, Södertörn University, Stockholm, and author of The Gumilev Mystique and Imperial Visions. Christopher Ely is associate professor of history in the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University and author of This Meager Nature Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia and Underground Petersburg. Melissa K. Stockdale is a Brian and Sandra O'Brien Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma and author of Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1880–1918 and Mobilizing the Russian Nation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction-Russian Space Mark Bassin Christopher Ely Melissa K. Stockdale 3

Part 1 Geopolitical Constructions Of Space

1 What Is a Fatherland? Changing Notions of Duty, Rights, and Belonging in Russia Melissa K. Stockdale 23

2 Nationhood, Natural Regions, Mestorazvitie-Environmentalist Discourses in Classical Eurasianism Mark Bassin 49

Part 2 Place, Space, And Power

3 Russian Route-The Politics of the Petersburg-Moscow Road, 1700-1800 John Randolph 81

4 On the Dance Floor-Royal Power, Class, and Nationality in Servile Russia Richard Stites 100

5 Ab Oriente ad Ulteriorem Orientem-Eugene Schuyler, Russia, and Central Asia Patricia Herlihy 119

6 Soviet Agitational Vehicles-Bolsheviks in Strange Places Robert Argenbright 142

Part 3 Place, Identity, And Memory

7 Street Space and Political Culture in St. Petersburg under Alexander II Christopher Ely 167

8 Making and Unmaking the "Sacred Landscape" of Orthodox Russia-Identity Crisis and Religious Politics in the Ukrainian Provinces of the Late Russian Empire Sergei I. Zhuk 195

9 Dilemmas of Post-Soviet Identity in Vologda-A Sacred Landscape in Moscow's Political Shadow Cathy A. Frierson 218

10 Place, Memory, and the Politics of Identity-Historical Buildings and Street Names in Leningrad-St. Petersburg Lisa A. Kirschenbaum 243

Index 261

What People are Saying About This

Richard Wortman

By focusing on space and place, the essays in this volume open aspects of Russian history that have evaded the historian's gaze and give us a new sense of the visual and emotional realities of the Russian past.

Editorial Reviews

""By focusing on space and place, the essays in this volume open aspects of Russian history that have evaded the historian\u2019s gaze and give us a new sense of the visual and emotional realities of the Russian past."--Richard Wortman, Columbia University"

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