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05/22/18 Constructing Identities in Soviet Russia: Local, National and Global Perspectives | University of Glasgow Constructing Identities in Soviet Russia: Local, National and Global Perspectives View Online 261 items Because of the broad scope and perspective of this course, there are no set textbooks and no compulsory purchases. Lists of works specific to a particular topic are laid out on a week-by-week basis as part of the seminars and readings section below. These works are divided into key texts, and background reading. In preparation for weekly sessions students must read the key texts, and are advised to read a selection of other background readings from the list. All readings given here are available in the university libraries. The majority are held in the Main University Library and the Adam Smith Library. Key texts are held in High Demand Collection in the Main University Library. Basic course texts (26 items) The following works offer a summary of those books referred to most frequently in the lists of works for individual seminars and those that provide a good general background to the course. Included are a number of general history texts relating to the Soviet Union. Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Benedict R. O'G. Anderson, American Council of Learned Societies, c2006 Book Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities - Mark Bassin, Catriona Kelly, 2012 Book Russia and Western civilization: cultural and historical encounters - Russell Bova, c2003 Book The Russian Revolution: from Lenin to Stalin (1917-1929) - Edward Hallett Carr, 1979 Book A history of Russia: medieval, modern, contemporary, c. 882-1996 - Paul Dukes, 1998 Book Becoming national: a reader - Geoff Eley, Ronald Grigor Suny, 1996 Book A history of Russia: peoples, legends, events, forces - Catherine Evtuhov, c2004 Book Natasha's dance: a cultural history of Russia - Orlando Figes, 2002 Book Tear off the masks!: identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia - Sheila Fitzpatrick, American Council of Learned Societies, c2005 1/21
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261 items
Because of the broad scope and perspective of this course, there are no set textbooks andno compulsory purchases. Lists of works specific to a particular topic are laid out on aweek-by-week basis as part of the seminars and readings section below. These works aredivided into key texts, and background reading. In preparation for weekly sessionsstudents must read the key texts, and are advised to read a selection of other backgroundreadings from the list. All readings given here are available in the university libraries. Themajority are held in the Main University Library and the Adam Smith Library. Key texts areheld in High Demand Collection in the Main University Library.
Basic course texts (26 items)The following works offer a summary of those books referred to most frequently in the listsof works for individual seminars and those that provide a good general background to thecourse. Included are a number of general history texts relating to the Soviet Union.
Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Benedict R.O'G. Anderson, American Council of Learned Societies, c2006
Book
Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities - Mark Bassin, Catriona Kelly, 2012Book
Russia and Western civilization: cultural and historical encounters - Russell Bova, c2003Book
The Russian Revolution: from Lenin to Stalin (1917-1929) - Edward Hallett Carr, 1979Book
A history of Russia: medieval, modern, contemporary, c. 882-1996 - Paul Dukes, 1998Book
Becoming national: a reader - Geoff Eley, Ronald Grigor Suny, 1996Book
A history of Russia: peoples, legends, events, forces - Catherine Evtuhov, c2004Book
Natasha's dance: a cultural history of Russia - Orlando Figes, 2002Book
Tear off the masks!: identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia - Sheila Fitzpatrick,American Council of Learned Societies, c2005
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National identity in Russian culture: an introduction - Simon Franklin, Emma Widdis, 2004Book
Empire of nations: ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union - FrancineHirsch, 2005
Book
A history of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 - Geoffrey A. Hosking, 1992Book
Russia and the Russians: from earliest times to 2001 - Geoffrey A. Hosking, 2002, c2001Book
Rulers and victims: the Russians in the Soviet Union - Geoffrey A. Hosking, 2006Book
Russia: a history - Gregory L. Freeze, 2009Book
Russian cultural studies: an introduction - Catriona Kelly, David Shepherd, 1998Book
A history of the Soviet Union from the beginning to the end - Peter Kenez, 2006Book
The making of modern Russia - Lionel Kochan, Richard Abraham, 1983Book
Russians in the former Soviet Republics - Paul Kolstoe, c1995Book
Russia in the modern world: a new geography - Denis J. B. Shaw, 1999Book
The Nationalities question in the Soviet Union - Graham Smith, 1990Book
The post-Soviet states: mapping the politics of transition - Graham Smith, 1999Book
Russia - Vera Tolz, c2001Book
Everything was forever, until it was no more: the last Soviet generation - Alexei Yurchak,c2006
Book
The lists provided for each session are not intended to be prescriptive and are notexhaustive. Students are encouraged to search for other sources of information as part of
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their reading for the course. For more information regarding relevant databases to Russianand Central and East European Studies visit the subject webpage on the University MainLibrary website:
Russian and East European Studies Subject WebpageWebpage
Useful journals (20 items)
For academic articles, you may wish to consult the following journals for articles ofrelevance:
Europe-Asia studies - University of Glasgow, EBSCO Publishing (Firm), JSTOR (Organization)Journal
Nationalities papers - Association for the Study of Nationalities, EBSCO Publishing (Firm)Journal
Ethnic & racial studies - EBSCO Publishing (Firm)Journal
The journal of communist studies and transition politics - ©1994-Journal
Communist and post-communist studies - University of California (System). RegentsJournal
Journal of ethnic and migration studies - EBSCO Publishing (Firm)Journal
Eurasian geography and economics - Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies,©2002-
Journal
Central Asian survey - Society for Central Asian Studies, ©1982-Journal
History and memory - Eva and Marc Besen Institute for the Study of HistoricalConsciousness, Project MUSE., Thomson Gale (Firm), 1989-
Journal
Kritika: explorations in Russian and Eurasian history - Project MUSE.Journal
Slavonica - c1994-Journal
Journal of contemporary history - Institute of Contemporary History, Institute for AdvancedStudies in Contemporary History, JSTOR (Organization), 1966-
Journal
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Slavic review - American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, JSTOR(Organization), 1961-
Journal
The Russian review - JSTOR (Organization), 1941-Journal
If you have Russian language, then the following may be of interest:
Diaspory - 1999-Journal
Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia - 1974-Journal
In addition, we will be using the Current Digest of the Soviet Press, available on-line atGUL. This is an excellent source of newspaper articles from the Soviet period, 1949onwards, in translation. You can access the CDSP at:
Universal database of regional Russian newspapersWebsite
Week 1: Induction and introduction to the course: understandingidentity formation, Western and Soviet perspectives (42 items)
Key readings (8 items)
Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Benedict R.O'G. Anderson, American Council of Learned Societies, c2006
Book | Essential | See: Introduction.
Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities - Mark Bassin, Catriona Kelly, 2012Book | Essential | See: Introduction.
Nationalism reframed: nationhood and the national question in the new Europe - RogersBrubaker, 1996
Book | Essential | See: Rethinking nationhood: nation as institutionalized form, practicalcategory, contingent event, pp. 13-22.
Tear off the masks!: identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia - Sheila Fitzpatrick,American Council of Learned Societies, c2005
Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1: Becoming Soviet.
Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth, reality - E. J. Hobsbawm, AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies, 1992
Book | Essential | See: Introduction.
Soviet and Post-Soviet: Challenges to the Study of Nation and State Building - GlennGoshulak, 2003-12-01
Article | Essential
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Rethinking ethnicity - Richard Jenkins, Dawson Books, 2008Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1, especially pp. 10-16.
Thinking theoretically about Soviet nationalities: history and comparison in the study ofthe USSR. - Alexander J. Motyl, 1992
Book | Essential | See: Smith A., Ethnic identity and territorial nationalism incomparative perspective, pp. 45-65.
Background readings on identity, nationality and ethnicity (19 items)
Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Benedict R.O'G. Anderson, American Council of Learned Societies, c2006
Book
Nation and narration - Ebooks Corporation Limited, 1990Book
Banal nationalism - Michael Billig, 1995Book
Nationalism reframed: nationhood and the national question in the new Europe - RogersBrubaker, 1996
Book
Becoming national: a reader - Geoff Eley, Ronald Grigor Suny, 1996Book
Nations and nationalism - Ernest Gellner, 1983Book
Identity: community, culture, difference - Jonathan Rutherford, 1990Book | See: Hall S., Cultural identity and diaspora, pp. 222-237.
The construction of nationhood: ethnicity, religion, and nationalism - Adrian Hastings,NetLibrary, Inc, 1997
Book
Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth, reality - E. J. Hobsbawm, AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies, 1992
Book
Ethnicity - John Hutchinson, Anthony D. Smith, 1996Book
Understanding nationalism - Maria Montserrat Guibernau i Berdún, John Hutchinson, 2001Book
Theories of nationalism: a critical introduction - Umutt Özkırımlı, NetLibrary, Inc, 2000Book
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Nationalism and its futures - Umutt Özkırımlı, Dawson Books, 2003Book
The concept of national identity - Bhikhu Parekh, 1995-04Article
The state: its nature, development, and prospects - Gianfranco Poggi, 1990Book
Orientalism - Edward W. Said, 2003Book
Nations and nationalism in a global era - Anthony D. Smith, 1995Book
Nationalism and modernism: a critical survey of recent theories of nations and nationalism- Anthony D. Smith, 1998
Book
Gender & nation - Nira Yuval-Davis, 1997Book
Background readings on Russia/Soviet Union identity, nationality andethnicity (15 items)
National Bolshevism: Stalinist mass culture and the formation of modern Russian nationalidentity, 1931-1956 - David Brandenberger, 2002
Book
Reinventing Russia: Russian nationalism and the Soviet state, 1953-1991 - Yitzhak M.Brudny, 1998
Book
The last empire: nationality and the Soviet future - Robert Conquest, c1986Book
Natasha's dance: a cultural history of Russia - Orlando Figes, 2002Book
The disintegration of the Soviet Union: a study in the rise and triumph of nationalism - BenFowkes, 1997
Book
National identity in Russian culture: an introduction - Simon Franklin, Emma Widdis, 2004Book
Being Soviet: identity, rumour, and everyday life under Stalin 1939-1953 - TimothyJohnston, Oxford University Press, 2011
Book
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The geography of nationalism in Russia and the USSR - Robert John Kaiser, c1994Book
Empire: the Russian empire and its rivals - D. C. B. Lieven, 2000Book
Motherland: Russia in the 20th century - David R. Marples, 2002Book
The affirmative action empire: nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 -Terry Martin, 2001
Book
Thinking theoretically about Soviet nationalities: history and comparison in the study ofthe USSR. - Alexander J. Motyl, 1992
Book
The formation of the Soviet Union: communism and nationalism, 1917-1923 : with a newpreface - Richard Pipes, American Council of Learned Societies, 1997
Book
Russian nationalism from an interdisciplinary perspective: imagining Russia - DanielRancour-Laferriere, c2000
Book
The revenge of the past: nationalism, revolution, and the collapse of the Soviet Union -Ronald Grigor Suny, American Council of Learned Societies, c1993
Book
Week 2: Constructions of 'empire' and identity in the Soviet period (23items)
Key readings (7 items)
Nationalism reframed: nationhood and the national question in the new Europe - RogersBrubaker, 1996
Book | Essential | See: Rethinking nationhood: nation as institutionalized form, practicalcategory, contingent event, pp. 13-22.
Tear off the masks!: identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia - Sheila Fitzpatrick,American Council of Learned Societies, c2005
Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1: Becoming Soviet.
Empire of nations: ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union - FrancineHirsch, 2005
Book | Essential | See: Introduction and Chapter 2.
The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as Imperial Polities - Dominic Lieven, 1995Article | Essential
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Soviet and Post-Soviet: Challenges to the Study of Nation and State Building - GlennGoshulak, 2003-12-01
Article | Essential
The nationalities question in the post-Soviet States - Graham Smith, 1996Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1.
Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities - Mark Bassin, Catriona Kelly, 2012Book | Essential | See: Suny R., The contradictions of identity: being Soviet and national
in the USSR an after, pp. 17-36.
Background readings (16 items)
Nationhood and the National Question in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Eurasia: AnInstitutionalist Account - Rogers Brubaker, 1994
Article | See: in particular first part of article to p.63.
Russian empire: space, people, power, 1700-1930 - Jane Burbank, Mark Von Hagen,MyiLibrary, 2007
Book | See: Chapter 5.
Empire of nations: ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union - FrancineHirsch, 2005
Book
Russia and the Russians: from earliest times to 2001 - Geoffrey A. Hosking, 2002, c2001Book | See: Part III: Russia as European empire, Chapter 8: The rise of nationalism.
The Russian empire: a multiethnic history - Andreas Kappeler, Alfred Clayton, 2001Book
Empire: the Russian empire and its rivals - D. C. B. Lieven, 2000Book
The affirmative action empire: nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 -Terry Martin, 2001
Book
Thinking theoretically about Soviet nationalities: history and comparison in the study ofthe USSR. - Alexander J. Motyl, 1992
Book
The formation of the Soviet Union: communism and nationalism, 1917-1923 : with a newpreface - Richard Pipes, American Council of Learned Societies, 1997
Book
Nationalism and empire: the Habsburg Empire and the Soviet Union - Richard L. Rudolph,David F. Good, 1992
Book
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Visions of Empire: Russia's Place in an Imperial World - Jeff Sahadeo, 2010Article
Russia in the modern world: a new geography - Denis J. B. Shaw, 1999Book | See: Chapters 1 and 2.
The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted EthnicParticularism - Yuri Slezkine, 1994
Article
Thinking theoretically about Soviet nationalities: history and comparison in the study ofthe USSR. - Alexander J. Motyl, 1992
Book | See: Smith A., Ethnic identity and territorial nationalism in comparativeperspective, pp. 45-65.
A state of nations: empire and nation-making in the age of Lenin and Stalin - EbooksCorporation Limited, 2001
Book
Russia - Vera Tolz, c2001Book
Week 3: Rulers or victims: Russians in the Soviet Union (14 items)
Key readings (6 items)
Stalin's populism and the accidental creation of Russian national identity - DavidBrandenberger, 2010-09
Article | Essential | The following debate in the same journal is also useful.
National Bolshevism: Stalinist mass culture and the formation of modern Russian nationalidentity, 1931-1956 - David Brandenberger, 2002
Book | Essential | See: Introduction.
Rulers and victims: the Russians in the Soviet Union - Geoffrey A. Hosking, 2006Book | Essential | See: Introduction, Chapters 6 and 7.
Russians in the former Soviet Republics - Paul Kolstoe, c1995Book | Essential | See: Chapter 4.
The new Russian diaspora: Russian minorities in the former Soviet republics - VladimirShlapentokh, Munir Sendich, Emil Payin, c1994
Book | Essential | See: Levita R. and Loiberg M., The empire and the Russians.
Motherland: Russia in the 20th century - David R. Marples, 2002Book | Essential | See: Chapter 6.
Background readings (8 items)
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The nationalities question in the post-Soviet States - Graham Smith, 1996Book | See: Aasland A., Russians outside Russia: the new Russian diaspora, pp.
477-497.
National Bolshevism: Stalinist mass culture and the formation of modern Russian nationalidentity, 1931-1956 - David Brandenberger, 2002
Book
Reinventing Russia: Russian nationalism and the Soviet state, 1953-1991 - Yitzhak M.Brudny, 1998
Book
The nationalities question in the post-Soviet States - Graham Smith, 1996Book | See: Dixon S., The Russians and the Russian question, pp. 47-74.
Russia and the Russians: from earliest times to 2001 - Geoffrey A. Hosking, 2002, c2001Book
Identity in formation: the Russian-speaking populations in the near abroad - David D. Laitin, 1998
Book
Motherland: Russia in the 20th century - David R. Marples, 2002Book
Russia and its new diasporas - I. A. Zevelëv, 2000Book | See: Chapter 2.
Week 4: Views from the imperial periphery: the case of Central Asia (28items)
Key readings (7 items)
Understanding Central Asia: politics and contested transformations - Sally N. Cummings,2012
Book | Essential | See: Chapter 3
Toward an Empire of Nations: Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet NationalIdentities - Francine Hirsch, 2000
Article | Essential
Empire of nations: ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union - FrancineHirsch, 2005
Book | Essential | See: Chapter 4.
Speaking Soviet with an accent: culture and power in Kyrgyzstan - Ali F. Igmen, c2012Book | Essential | See: Chapter 2.
Three lives of Saodat: Communist, Uzbek, survivor - Marianne R. Kamp, 2001
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Article | Essential
Languages of Loyalty: Gender, Politics, and Party Supervision in Uzbekistan, 1927-41 -Douglas Northrop, 2000
Article | Essential
The accidental traders: marginalization and opportunity from the southern republics to lateSoviet Moscow - Jeff Sahadeo, 2011-12
Article | Essential
Background readings (21 items)
Russia's Orient: imperial borderlands and peoples, 1700-1917 - Daniel R. Brower, Edward J.Lazzerini, c1997
Book
Russian empire: space, people, power, 1700-1930 - Jane Burbank, Mark Von Hagen,MyiLibrary, 2007
Book
An introduction to post-colonial theory - Peter Childs, R. J. Patrick Williams, 1997Book
The political economy of dependency under socialism: The Asian Republics in the USSR -Gregory Gleason, 1991-12
Article
The new woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, modernity, and unveiling under communism -Marianne Kamp, c2006
Book
Russian History and the Debate over Orientalism - Adeeb Khalid, 2000Article
Speaking Soviet with an accent: culture and power in Kyrgyzstan - Ali F. Igmen, c2012Book
Russian culture in Uzbekistan: one language in the middle of nowhere - David MacFadyen,2006
Book
Veiled empire: gender & power in Stalinist Central Asia - Douglas Taylor Northrop, 2004Book
Muslim Eurasia: conflicting legacies - Yaacov Ro'i, 1995Book
The creation of Soviet Central Asia: The 1924 national delimitation - Steven Sabol, 1995-06Article
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Everyday life in Central Asia: past and present - Jeff Sahadeo, Russell G. Zanca, MyiLibrary,c2007
Book | See: Chapters 6, 7 and 8.
Crucifying the Orient: Russian orientalism and the colonization of the Caucasus andCentral Asia - Kalpana Sahni, 1997
Book
Russian colonial society in Tashkent, 1865-1923 - Jeff Sahadeo, c2007Book
Druzhba Narodov or second-class citizenship? Soviet Asian migrants in a post-colonialworld - Jeff Sahadeo, 2007-12
Article
Orientalism - Edward W. Said, 2003Book
Slavic Review - 2006Journal | See: The multiethnic Soviet Union in comparative perspective, pp. 231-303.
Central Asia: aspects of transition - Tom Everett-Heath, 2003Book | See: Stringer A., Soviet development in Central Asia: the classical colonial
syndrome?
Tashkent: forging a Soviet city, 1930-1966 - Paul Stronski, c2010Book
Ambigious categories: states, empires and nations - R. Suny, 1995Article
Russia - Vera Tolz, c2001Book | See: Chapter 4.
Week 5: Repression, forced migration and exile: the experience ofSoviet national minorities (25 items)
Key readings (5 items)
The nation killers: the Soviet deportation of nationalities - Robert Conquest, 1970Book | Essential
Commemorating "The Deportation" in Post-Soviet Chechnya - BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS, 2000Article | Essential
The Soviet deportation in 1943 of the Karachays: a Turkic Muslim people of NorthCaucasus - Alf Grannes, 1991-01
Article | Essential
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Migration, homeland and belonging in Eurasia - Cynthia J. Buckley, Blair A. Ruble, ErinTrouth Hofmann, 2008
Book | Essential | See: Otto Pohl J., The loss, retention and reacquisition of social capitalby special settlers in the USSR, 1941-1960, pp. 203-222.
Against their will: the history and geography of forced migrations in the USSR - P. M.Pol︠i︡an, American Council of Learned Societies, 2004
Book | Essential
Background readings (20 items)
Homelands: war, population and statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924 -Nick Baron, Peter Gatrell, 2004
Book
The deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union - Nikolai Bougai, c1996Book
Masses in flight: the global crisis of internal displacement - Roberta Cohen, Francis MadingDeng, c1998
Book
The Crimean Tatars - Alan W. Fisher, c1978Book
A stolen childhood: five winters in Siberia - Ilmārs Salts, Gunna Dickson, 2008Book
People in exile: The oral history of Meskhetian Turks (Akhyskha Turkleri) - MalikaMirkhanova, 2006-04
Article
The Germans of the Soviet Union - Irina Mukhina, 2007Book
Fires of hatred: ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe - Norman M. Naimark, 2001Book
The punished peoples: the deportation and fate of Soviet minorities at the end of theSecond World War - A. M. Nekrich, c1978
Book
Ethnic cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949 - J. Otto Pohl, 1999Book
Chechnya: from past to future - Richard Sakwa, 2005Book
Russian fascism: traditions, tendencies, movements - Stephen Shenfield, c2001Book
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The Crimean Tatars and Volga Germans: Soviet treatment of two national minorities - AnnSheehy, 1971
Book
Russo-Chechen conflict, 1800-2000: a deadly embrace - Robert Seely, 2001Book
The Nationalities question in the Soviet Union - Graham Smith, 1990Book
Journal of Genocide Research - 2009Journal
Chechnya: life in a war-torn society - Valeriĭ Aleksandrovich Tishkov, 2004Book
Ethnicity, nationalism and conflict in and after the Soviet Union: the mind aflame - ValeriĭAleksandrovich Tishkov, International Peace Research Institute, United Nations. ResearchInstitute for Social Development, 1997
Book
A century of genocide: utopias of race and nation - Eric D. Weitz, c2003Book
MemorialWebpage | Memorial is an organisation which emerged in the perestroika years
dedicated to the memory of those peoples who suffered repression, deportation andpolitical persecution during the Soviet period.
Week 6: Reading week and preparation for group presentations
Week 7: Group presentations
Week 8: Interpreting the West: the view from the Soviet Union (23 items)
Key readings (10 items)
The idea of the West: culture, politics, and history - Alastair Bonnett, 2004Book | Essential | See: Chapter 2.
The dancer defects: the struggle for cultural supremacy during the Cold War - David Caute, 2003
Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1.
The Soft Power of British Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in the USSR - Sarah Davies, 2013-09
Article | Essential | This is also relevant for next week's session.
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Strange Young Men in Stalin's Moscow: The Birth and Life of the Stiliagi, 1945-1953 - MarkEdele, 2002
Article | Essential
Uses of the other: "the East" in European identity formation - Iver B. Neumann, 1999Book | Essential | See: Chapter 6.
Russia - Vera Tolz, c2001Book | Essential | See: Chapter 3.
Russia and Western civilization: cultural and historical encounters - Russell Bova, c2003Book | Essential | See: Pilkington H., Youth and popular culture, pp. 319-349.
Who Will Beat Whom?: Soviet Popular Reception of the American National Exhibition inMoscow, 1959 - Susan E. Reid, 2008
Article | Essential
Everything was forever, until it was no more: the last Soviet generation - Alexei Yurchak,c2006
Book | Essential | See: Chapters 5 and 6.
Ilf and Petrov's American road trip: the 1935 travelogue of two Soviet writers - Ilʹia Ilʹf,EvgeniÄ Petrov, Erika Wolf, 2006
Book | Essential | A fascinating travelogue of two Soviet writers who visited the US in1935.
Background readings (13 items)
Russia between Europe and Asia: The Ideological Construction of Geographical Space -Mark Bassin, 1991
Article
Russia and Western civilization: cultural and historical encounters - Russell Bova, c2003Book | See: Introduction.
Soviet and Russian press coverage of the United States: press, politics, and identity intransition - Jonathan A. Becker, 2002
Book
The Russian idea - Nikolaĭ Berd︠i︡aev, 1947Book
The idea of the West: culture, politics, and history - Alastair Bonnett, 2004Book
Russia and Western civilization: cultural and historical encounters - Russell Bova, c2003Book
The dancer defects: the struggle for cultural supremacy during the Cold War - David Caute, 2003
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National identity in Russian culture: an introduction - Simon Franklin, Emma Widdis, 2004Book | See: Cross A., Them: Russians as foreigners, pp. 74-92.
Russian cultural studies: an introduction - Catriona Kelly, David Shepherd, 1998Book | See: Ellis F., The media as social engineer, pp. 192-222.
Being Soviet: identity, rumour, and everyday life under Stalin 1939-1953 - TimothyJohnston, Oxford University Press, 2011
Book | See: Chapter 5.
Russia and the idea of Europe: a study in identity and international relations - Iver B.Neumann, 1995
Book
Russian cultural studies: an introduction - Catriona Kelly, David Shepherd, 1998Book | See: Pilkington H., The future is ours: youth culture in Russia, 1953 to the
present, pp. 368-386.
Soviet youth culture - James Riordan, 1989Book
Week 9: Interpreting the Soviet Union: the view from the West (26 items)
Key readings (9 items)
The idea of the West: culture, politics, and history - Alastair Bonnett, 2004Book | Essential | See: Chapter 2.
A people passing rude: British responses to Russian culture - Anthony Glenn Cross, c2012Book | Essential | See: Clarkson V., Sputniks and sideboards: exhibiting the Soviet way
of life in Cold War Britain.
The invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the double-mapping of Europe and empire -Christopher Lloyd GoGwilt, 1995
Book | Essential
Russia under western eyes: from the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum - Martin E.Malia, 1999
Book | Essential | See: Introduction.
Geographically touring the eastern bloc: British geography, travel cultures and the ColdWar - David Matless, Jonathan Oldfield, Adam Swain, 2008-07
Article | Essential
Uses of the other: "the East" in European identity formation - Iver B. Neumann, 1999Book | Essential | See: Chapter 3.
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Inventing Eastern Europe: the map of civilization on the mind of the enlightenment - LarryWolff, American Council of Learned Societies, 1994
Book | Essential | See: Introduction and Conclusion.
A Russian journal - John Steinbeck, 2005Book | Essential | Account of the journey made by Steinbeck and photojournalist Robert
Capa to the Soviet Union in 1947.
Russian journal - Andrea Lee, 1982, c1981Book | Essential
Background readings (17 items)
By train to Moscow - Anon., 1966Article
The dancer defects: the struggle for cultural supremacy during the Cold War - David Caute, 2003
Book
A people passing rude: British responses to Russian culture - Anthony Glenn Cross, c2012Book
The Fellow Travelers Revisited: The “Cultured West” through Soviet Eyes -Michael David‐Fox, 2003
Article
The genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain: a study of the interaction of policy andopinion - John Howes Gleason, 1972
Book
The cultural Cold War in Western Europe, 1945-1960 - Giles Scott-Smith, HansKrabbendam, Roosevelt Study Center, Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie,Dawson Books, 2003
Book
Novosibirsk: the city - Le Fleming, 1966Article
Life in a Moscow suburb - B McBride, 1969Article
Russia as Central Europe's Constituting Other - I. B. Neumann, 1993-03-01Article
Russia under western eyes: from the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum - Martin E.Malia, 1999
Book
Encountering soviet geography: oral histories of British geographical studies of the USSR
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and Eastern Europe 1945-1991 - David Matless, Jonathan Oldfield, Adam Swain, 2007-06Article
Soviet-British relations - Alex Pravda, Peter J. S. Duncan, Royal Institute of InternationalAffairs, 1990
Book
Central Europe / Eastern Europe: Behind the Definitions - Robin Okey, 1992Article
Orientalism - Edward W. Said, 2003Book
How We Learned to Love the Russians: American Media and the Soviet Union During WorldWar II - Melvin Small, 1974-05
Article
Road to Moscow - A. Stiltoe, 1967Article
Road to Kiev - A. Stiltoe, 1967Article
Week 10: Russian communities outside of the Soviet Union: the emigredebate (16 items)
Key readings (7 items)
Global diasporas: an introduction - Robin Cohen, 1997Book | Essential | See: Conclusion.
A history of Russia: peoples, legends, events, forces - Catherine Evtuhov, c2004Book | Essential | See: Chapter 28.
Natasha's dance: a cultural history of Russia - Orlando Figes, 2002Book | Essential | See: Chapter 8.
"New Mecca, new Babylon": Paris and the Russian exiles, 1920- 1945 - Robert H. Johnston,c1988
Book | Essential
The "Homecoming" of the First Wave Diaspora and Its Cultural Legacy - Greta N. Slobin,2001
Article | Essential
Russia abroad: a cultural history of the Russian emigration, 1919-1939 - Marc Raeff, 1990Book | Essential | See: Introduction, Chapters 2 and 6.
The italics are mine - Nina Nikolaevna Berberova, Philippe Radley, 1969
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Book | Essential | Exiled from Russia following the 1917 revolution, the novelist writes ofher life in Paris from the 1920-40s. It provides an excellent insight into the world of theRussian (literary) community in Paris at the time.
Background readings (9 items)
Russia abroad: Prague and the Russian diaspora, 1918-1938 - Catherine Andreyev, IvanSavický, c2004
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Evaluating 'diaspora': beyond ethnicity - Floya Anthias, 1998Article
Russians outside Russia : the émigré community in Czechoslovakia 1918-1938 - ElenaChinyaeva, 2001
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Coming to terms with the Soviet regime: the "Changing signposts" movement amongRussian Émigrés in the early 1920s - Hilde Hardeman, 1994
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Russian cultural studies: an introduction - Catriona Kelly, David Shepherd, 1998Book | See: Kelly C., Russian culture and emigration 1921-1953, pp. 297-304.
The other Russia - Norman Stone, Michael Glenny, 1990Book
The Bitter air of exile: Russian writers in the West, 1922-1972 - Simon Karlinsky, AlfredAppel, c1977
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New diasporas: the mass exodus, dispersal and regrouping of migrant communities -Nicholas Van Hear, 1998
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Culture in exile: Russian Émigrés in Germany, 1881-1941 - Robert Chadwell Williams, 1972Book
Week 11: The end of the Soviet Union and the rebirth of Russia (17 items)
Key readings (4 items)
What Comes after "Post-Soviet" in Russian Studies? - Julie A. Buckler, 2009Article | Essential
New states, new politics: building the post-Soviet nations - Ian A. Bremmer, Ray Taras,1997
Book | Essential | See: Dunlop J., Russia in search of an identity?
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Tear off the masks!: identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia - Sheila Fitzpatrick,American Council of Learned Societies, c2005
Book | Essential | See: Chapter 15: Becoming post-Soviet.
Rulers and victims: the Russians in the Soviet Union - Geoffrey A. Hosking, 2006Book | Essential | See: Chapters 10, 11 and Conclusion.
Background readings (13 items)
The persisting ambiguity of empire - M. Bessinger, 1995Article
Russia and Western civilization: cultural and historical encounters - Russell Bova, c2003Book | See: Introduction.
Nations and politics in the Soviet successor states - Ian Bremmer, Ray Taras, 1993Book | See: Dunlop J., Russia: confronting a loss of empire.
A history of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 - Geoffrey A. Hosking, 1992Book | See: Chapter 15.
The awakening of the Soviet Union - Geoffrey A. Hosking, 1991Book
Perestroika: the historical perspective - Catherine Merridale, Chris Ward, 1991Book | See: Smith G., The state, nationalism and the nationalities question in the Soviet
republics, pp. 202-216.
Russian cultural studies: an introduction - Catriona Kelly, David Shepherd, 1998Book | See: Kelly C., Shepherd D. and White S., Conclusion: towards post-Soviet
pluralism? Postmodernism and beyond, pp. 387-400.
Russia's future: consolidation or disintegration? - Douglas W. Blum, 1994Book | See: Shenfield S., Post-Soviet Russia in search of identity.
The revenge of the past: nationalism, revolution, and the collapse of the Soviet Union -Ronald Grigor Suny, American Council of Learned Societies, c1993
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Ambiguous categories: states, empires and nations - R. Suny, 1995Article
From union to commonwealth: nationalism and separatism in the Soviet Republics - GailWarshofsky Lapidus, Victor Zaslavsky, Philip Goldman, 1992
Book | See: Suny R., State, civil society and ethnic cultural consolidation in the USSR -roots of the national question, pp. 22-44.
Russia - Vera Tolz, c2001Book | See: Chapter 8 and Conclusion.
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Everything was forever, until it was no more: the last Soviet generation - Alexei Yurchak,c2006
Book | See: Conclusion.
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