Understanding Russianness /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description:xiv, 264 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge advances in sociology ; 54
Routledge advances in sociology ; 54.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8508667
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Other authors / contributors:Alapuro, Risto, 1944-
Mustajoki, Arto S. (Arto Samuel), 1948-
Pesonen, Pekka.
ISBN:9780415604154 (hardback)
041560415X (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Language
  • The "west" in the linguistic construction of Russianness in contemporary public discourse
  • Attitudes toward the Russian and English languages in Russia and the United States : perceptions of self and the other
  • Russification of western concepts : political will and crisis in a Russian way
  • A Russian view of western concepts
  • Society
  • Russian "otherness" : from Chaadaev to the present day
  • From a mother's worry to soldiers' mothers action : building collective action on personal concerns
  • Opposition substitutes : reflections on the collective action in support of the European University at St. Petersburg
  • Political culture in Russia in a local perspective
  • Soviet modernity : the case of Soviet fashion
  • Culture
  • Spiritus loci : two east Karelian folklore epic traditions
  • Autogenesis in Russian culture : an approach to the avant-garde
  • Two hundred years of poshlost : a historical sketch of the concept
  • The notion of universal bisexuality in Russian religious philosophy
  • Religious nationalism in contemporary Russia : the case of the Ossetian ethnic religious project
  • Social networking on the internet : is the Russian way special?.