Melissa-Ellen Dowling

Writing Russia

The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first systematic analysis of Anglophone national histories of Russia. By deconstructing historical works on the history of Russia, it provides insight into representations of Russia in the West and advances approaches to historiography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9781032003252
• ISBN-10: 1032003251
• Artikelnr.: 69897257

Autorenporträt

Melissa-Ellen Dowling is a research fellow at the University of Adelaide.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Writing Russia 1. Discourse, Power, Nation: Approaches to
Deconstructing National Histories 2. Othering Russia in Historical Accounts
of the Mongol Conquest 3. Romancing Russia and Questioning the
Applicability of the Oriental Paradigm 4. The Language of Nationality in
Histories of World War II 5. Securitising Putin's Russia 6. A Discordic
Narrativisation of the Russian Nation and the Necessity of Tragic
Emplotment 7. A Short Annotated History of Russian Authoritarianism.
Conclusion: Representing and Reifying Russia