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Writing Russia - The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation (Hardcover)
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Writing Russia - The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
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Writing Russia offers the first systematic analysis of Anglophone
national histories of Russia. By deconstructing preeminent
historical works on the history of Russia, this book provides
insight into the hidden ideological underpinnings of the texts and
their representations of Russia in the West. It demonstrates that
historians employ a range of literary techniques to smooth over
contradictions in their narratives of Russia, generating a
seemingly cohesive depiction of Russia as a liminal, Other nation.
This is a process that this book theorises as "discordus",
representing an original conceptual framework for examining
national history texts. It identifies patterns in the language and
emplotment of Anglophone Russian histories across several defining
historical epochs from the Mongol conquests to the Putin
presidency, revealing the extent to which historians wield the
narrative power to "make or break" nations. Postmodern in approach,
the work pushes the boundaries of historiography and calls into
question the nature of history.
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