Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet Identity
by
Edith W. Clowes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical...