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Writing Russia: The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation

Writing Russia: The Discursive Construction of AnOther Nation

Dowling, Melissa-Ellen

Paperback

Series: Routledge Approaches to History

HistoriographyRussian History

ISBN10: 1032003251
ISBN13: 9781032003252
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 9 2023
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Writing Russia offers the first systematic analysis of Anglophone national histories of Russia. By deconstructing preeminent historical works on the history of Russia, this book provides insight into the hidden ideological underpinnings of the texts and their representations of Russia in the West. It demonstrates that historians employ a range of literary techniques to smooth over contradictions in their narratives of Russia, generating a seemingly cohesive depiction of Russia as a liminal, Other nation. This is a process that this book theorises as discordus, representing an original conceptual framework for examining national history texts. It identifies patterns in the language and emplotment of Anglophone Russian histories across several defining historical epochs from the Mongol conquests to the Putin presidency, revealing the extent to which historians wield the narrative power to make or break nations. Postmodern in approach, the work pushes the boundaries of historiography and calls into question the nature of history.

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