Russia on the Edge. Imagined Geographies and the post-Soviet debate over Russian identity "has been couched in spatial. have sought to define "Russia" through the use of "imagined geographies"-"the. Russian Winter Term Reflections-Oberlin College EBSCOhost serves thousands of libraries with premium essays, articles and other content including Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet. Russia on the edge: imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity. Add to My Bookmarks Export citation. Russia on the edge: imagined geographies and Russia on the edge : imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity. Russia on the edge : imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity /? Edith W. Clowes. Author Russian literature-21st century-History and criticism.
In his work as both philosopher and poet, Vladimir Solov'ev is motivated by seemingly contradictory desires: to apprehend in the world a higher, mystical "total–unity" that lends coherence and meaning to our lives, and to assert the validity of otherness, of the varieties of individual experience in this world. Throughout Solov'ev struggles with the possibilities inherent in available intellectual discourses–scientific, poetic, philosophical, and religious–to arrive at that combination of conceptualization and sensory experience that he called "thinking" total-unity. His historical revaluation of erotic love, The Meaning of Love (Smysl liubvi, 1892-1894), is a pivotal work in this quest. In addition to its well–known arguments in defense of erotic love, this essay focuses on the problem of discourse and its role in articulating and conceptualizing the mystical or revealed knowledge that eludes sense and reason.
Edith Clowes' Russia on the Edge is an engaging and accessible examination of three central questions of post-Soviet Russia: What is Russia? Who are the Russians? Where is Russia? The last question might be odd, given that the physical borders of the Russian Federation are not in doubt, since they are the same as those of the Russian republic borders from the Soviet period. However, when it comes to the creation of a post-Soviet Russian identity, the physical borders are secondary to how they are imagined. As stated in the preface: if Soviet identity was defined largely in terms of "time"-"linked to a vision of the Soviet state at the vanguard of history"the post-Soviet debate over Russian identity "has been couched in spatial metaphors of territory and geography" (xi). Thus, "[the] geographical metaphors dominant in current discourse about identity convey the sense that who a Russian is depends on how one defines where Russia is" (xii). As such, the three questions of What? Who? * Thomas Ambrosio is an associate professor of political science and director of international studies at North Dakota State University. He has published numerous articles, books, and edited volumes in the past decade, including, most recently, two articles: "Unfreezing the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict? Evaluating Peacemaking Efforts Under the Obama Administration" in Ethnopolitics and "Constructing a Framework of Authoritarian" in International Studies Perspectives. He is currently conducting research on the political rhetoric of Russian Presidents Putin and Medvedev, as well as perceptions of China as an alternative governing structure.
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