1st Edition
Russia at a Crossroads History, Memory and Political Practice
Edited By Nurit Schleifman
Copyright 1998
248 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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The meaning of Russia's past is in a process of continuous deconstruction, reshaping and negotiation by various social and political groupings. Of the deluge of group memories which have broken loose, this collection focuses on several new voices which have never been heard in Russia in this way before: women, Tatars, Cossacks, as well as the voices of religious and provincial populations. In addition, the volume sheds light on the creation of a multi-party system which paved the way for the expression of particular views and interests and generated much of memory's concepts and language.
The uses of memory: the Russian province in search of its past, Nurit Schleifman; a Russian city between two continents: the Tatars of Orenburg and state power, Grigorii G. Kosach; from estate to ethnos: the changing nature of Cossack identity in the 20th century, Peter Holquist; women remember World War II, Barbara Alpern Engel; the Russian orthodox church in a changing society, Boris Orlov and Sophia Kotzer; toward a multi-party system, 1985-1993, Vera Kaplan and Boris Morozov
Biography
Schleifman, Nurit
'Of immense help in unearthing the roots of the political parties and in linking them to the forces at work in Russia.' - Frontline
