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Russia's Own Orient

The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods

By: Vera Tolz

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Russia's Own Orient

The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods

By: Vera Tolz

Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St. Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge, and about Europe and Asia as mere political and cultural constructs. Their ideas anticipated the work of Edward Said and post-colonial scholarship by half a century. The similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical. Said was indebted, via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied in the Soviet Union, to the revisionist ideas of Russian Orientologists of the fin de siècle. But why did this body of Russian scholarship of the early twentieth century turn out to be so innovative? Should we agree with a popular claim of the Russian elites about their country's particular affinity with the 'Orient'? There is no single answer to this question. The early twentieth century was a period when all over Europe a fascination with things 'Oriental' engendered the questioning of many nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices. In that sense, the revisionism of Russian Orientologists was part of a pan-European trend. And yet, Tolz also argues that a set of political, social, and cultural factors, which were specific to Russia, allowed its imperial scholars to engage in an unusual dialogue with representatives of the empire's non-European minorities. It is together that they were able to articulate a powerful long-lasting critique of modern imperialism and colonialism, and to shape ethnic politics in Russia across the divide of the 1917 revolutions.

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0191616443

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The Ussr In 1991

A Record Of Events

By: Vera Tolz,Melanie Newton

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The Ussr In 1991

A Record Of Events

By: Vera Tolz,Melanie Newton

This last volume in the annual series chronicles the developments that led up to the abortive August coup, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The book is arranged as a day-by-day chronology with boldface headlines identifying individual topics. Among the highlights are analyses of the crackdown in the Baltic republics, the miners' strikes, and the ongoing ethnic warfare in the Transcaucasus; the referendum on the future of the USSR and the prolonged negotiations between the center and the republics over the Union treaty; the emergence of Russia as an alternative center of power; and the banning of the Soviet Communist Party. The volume also documents in depth the failed coup and the political realignment that followed, the disastrous state of the economy, and the discussion of potential future cooperation among the newly independent republics.

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1000306860

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Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order

RT as Populist Pariah

By: Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz,Precious Chatterje-Doody,Rhys Crilley,Marie Gillespie

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Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order

RT as Populist Pariah

By: Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz,Precious Chatterje-Doody,Rhys Crilley,Marie Gillespie

Through the prism of the first comprehensive account of RT, the Kremlin's primary tool of foreign propaganda, Russia, Disinformation and the Liberal Order sheds new light on the provenance and nature of disinformation's threat to democracy. Interrogating the communications strategies pursued by authoritarian states and grassroots populist movements, the book reveals the interlinked nature of today's global media-politics pathologies. Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz, Precious Chatterje-Doody, Rhys Crilley, and Marie Gillespie provide a systematic investigation into RT's history, institutional culture, and journalistic ethos; its activities across multiple languages and media platforms; its audience-targeting strategies and audiences' engagements with it; and its response to the war in Ukraine and associated bans on the network. The authors' analysis challenges commonplace notions of disinformation as something that Russia brings to the West, where passive publics are duped by the Kremlin's communications machine, and reveals the reciprocal processes through which Russia and disinformation infiltrate and challenge the liberal order. Russia, Disinformation and the Liberal Order provides provocative insights into the nature and extent of the challenge that Russia's propaganda operation poses to the West. The authors contend that the challenge will be met only if liberals reflect on liberalism's own internal tensions and blind spots and defend the values of open-minded impartiality.

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Cornell University Press

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1501777645

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The Ussr In 1990

A Record Of Events

By: Vera Tolz,Melanie Newton

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The Ussr In 1990

A Record Of Events

By: Vera Tolz,Melanie Newton

A unique, day-by-day chronology of important events and trends related to the USSR, this reference annual draws from a wide variety of sources, including Soviet and international media reports. The volume’s comprehensive indexes to persons and places provide easy access to specific information being sought. Entries are brief but substantial, providing the context necessary in order to understand current developments.

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878

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1000306852

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Fluid Russia

Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era

By: Vera Michlin-Shapir

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Fluid Russia

Between the Global and the National in the Post-Soviet Era

By: Vera Michlin-Shapir

Fluid Russia offers a new framework for understanding Russian national identity by focusing on the impact of globalization on its formation, something which has been largely overlooked. This approach sheds new light on the Russian case, revealing a dynamic Russian identity that is developing along the lines of other countries exposed to globalization. Vera Michlin-Shapir shows how along with the freedoms afforded when Russia joined the globalizing world in the 1990s came globalization's disruptions. Michlin-Shapir describes Putin's rise to power and his project to reaffirm a stronger identity not as a uniquely Russian diversion from liberal democracy, but as part of a broader phenomenon of challenges to globalization. She underlines the limits of Putin's regime to shape Russian politics and society, which is still very much impacted by global trends. As well, Michlin-Shapir questions a prevalent approach in Russia studies that views Russia's experience with national identity as abnormal or defective, either being too week or too aggressive. What is offered is a novel explanation for the so-called Russian identity crisis. As the liberal postwar order faces growing challenges, Russia's experience can be an instructive example of how these processes unfold. This study ties Russia's authoritarian politics and nationalist rallying to the shortcomings of globalization and neoliberal economics, potentially making Russia "patient zero" of the anti-globalist populist wave and rise of neo-authoritarian regimes. In this way, Fluid Russia contributes to the broader understanding of national identity in the current age and the complexities of identity formation in the global world.

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Cornell University Press

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1501760564

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9781501760563

Russia's Liberal Media

Handcuffed but Free

By: Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova

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Russia's Liberal Media

Handcuffed but Free

By: Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova

This book examines the challenges and pressures liberal journalists face in Putin's Russia. It presents the findings of an in-depth qualitative study, which included ethnographic observations of editorial meetings during the conflict in Ukraine. It also provides a theoretical framework for evaluating the Russian media system and a historical overview of the development of liberal media in the country. The book focuses on some of Russia’s most influential liberal national news outlets: "the deadliest" newspaper Novaya Gazeta, "Russia’s last independent radio station" Radio Echo of Moscow (Ekho Moskvy) and US Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The fieldwork included ethnographic observations of editorial meetings, long interviews with editors and journalists as well as documentary analysis. The monograph makes theoretical contributions to three main areas: 1. Media systems and terms of reference. 2. Journalism: cultures, role conceptions, and relationship with power, culture and society. 3. Mediatisation of conflict and nationhood.

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1315300176

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Historians and Historical Societies in the Public Life of Imperial Russia

By: Vera Kaplan

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Historians and Historical Societies in the Public Life of Imperial Russia

By: Vera Kaplan

What was the role of historians and historical societies in the public life of imperial Russia? Focusing on the Society of Zealots of Russian Historical Education (1895–1918), Vera Kaplan analyzes the network of voluntary associations that existed in imperial Russia, showing how they interacted with state, public, and private bodies. Unlike most Russian voluntary associations of the late imperial period, the Zealots were conservative in their view of the world. Yet, like other history associations, the group conceived their educational mission broadly, engaging academic and amateur historians, supporting free public libraries, and widely disseminating the historical narrative embraced by the Society through periodicals. The Zealots were champions of voluntary association and admitted members without regard to social status, occupation, or gender. Kaplan's study affirms the existence of a more substantial civil society in late imperial Russia and one that could endorse a modernist program without an oppositional liberal agenda.

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Indiana University Press

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0253024064

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9780253024060

Russian Academicians and the Revolution

Combining Professionalism and Politics

By: Vera Tolz

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Russian Academicians and the Revolution

Combining Professionalism and Politics

By: Vera Tolz

An examination of the early Soviet period of the Russian (Soviet) Academy of Sciences which focuses on the reactions of individual members of the academy to the new situation in which they found themselves after October 1917. Based on the extensive use of documents from the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the author discusses how the academicians justified their cooperation with the Bolsheviks and the ideological basis of the regime's policy towards the academy in the 1920s.

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Springer

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1349258407

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Russia's Own Orient

The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods

By: Vera Tolz

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The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods

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Oxford University Press

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0199594449

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Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order

RT as Populist Pariah

By: Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz,Precious Chatterje-Doody,Rhys Crilley,Marie Gillespie

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Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order

RT as Populist Pariah

By: Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz,Precious Chatterje-Doody,Rhys Crilley,Marie Gillespie

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Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television

Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

By: Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz

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Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

By: Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz

Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television’s role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies. Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the book shows how the covert meanings of discourse on a particular issue can diverge from the overt significance attributed to it, just as the impact of that discourse may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through centralised government and overall national cohesion that Russia shares with other European states, and the need to remain sensitive to, and to accommodate, the needs and perspectives of ethnic minorities and labour migrants. It compares the increasingly isolationist popular ethnonationalism in Russia, which harks back to "old-fashioned" values, with the similar rise of the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party in Britain. Throughout, this extremely rich, well-argued book complicates and challenges received wisdom on Russia’s recent descent into authoritarianism. It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and overbearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media.

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1317526244

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The Ussr In 1991

A Record Of Events

By: Vera Tolz,Melanie Newton

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A Record Of Events

By: Vera Tolz,Melanie Newton

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Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television

Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

By: Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz

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Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

By: Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz

Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television's role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies. Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the book shows how the covert meanings of discourse on a particular issue can diverge from the overt significance attributed to it, just as the impact of that discourse may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through centralised government and overall national cohesion that Russia shares with other European states, and the need to remain sensitive to, and to accommodate, the needs and perspectives of ethnic minorities and labour migrants. It compares the increasingly isolationist popular ethnonationalism in Russia, which harks back to "old-fashioned" values, with the similar rise of the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party in Britain. Throughout, this extremely rich, well-argued book complicates and challenges received wisdom on Russia's recent descent into authoritarianism. It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and overbearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media.

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The Ussr In 1990

A Record Of Events

By: Vera Tolz,Melanie Newton

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Russia's Own Orient

Russia's Own Orient

The Ussr In 1991

The Ussr In 1991

Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order

Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order

The Ussr In 1990

The Ussr In 1990

Fluid Russia

Fluid Russia

Russia's Liberal Media

Russia's Liberal Media

Historians and Historical Societies in the Public Life of Imperial Russia

Historians and Historical Societies in the Public Life of Imperial Russia

Russian Academicians and the Revolution

Russian Academicians and the Revolution

Russia's Own Orient

Russia's Own Orient

Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order

Russia, Disinformation, and the Liberal Order

Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television

Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television

The Ussr In 1991

The Ussr In 1991

Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television

Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television

The Ussr In 1990

The Ussr In 1990

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