Understanding Russianness /

In today's world where other cultures are being tapped to a greater extent than ever before, the processes of mixing and matching are especially relevant in making sense of Russia. Not only do borrowing and assimilation, interaction between the familiar and the alien, constitute a venerable tra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros autores: Alapuro, Risto, 1944-, Mustajoki, Arto S. 1948-, Pesonen, Pekka.
Formato: eBook
Idioma:English
Fecha de publicación: London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Routledge advances in sociology.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?.