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Russia's Orient

Author : Daniel R. Brower
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 1997-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253211132

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From a 1994 conference (U. of California, Berkeley), Borderlands Research Group participants present their findings based on unprecedented access to the hinterlands of what is the now the CIS. Fourteen contributors provide context for the current self- deterministic ethnic turmoil in Chechyna and elsewhere far from the Kremlin, via discussions of tsarist colonial policies and historical, heartland majority attitudes toward the "ignoble savages and unfaithful subjects" (read Muslim) of Russia's diverse Orient. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Russia's Own Orient

Author : Vera Tolz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0199594449

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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.

Russian Orientalism

Author : David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0300162898

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Here, the author examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. He argues that the Russian Empire's bi-continental geography and the complicated nature of its encounter with Asia have all resulted in a variegated understanding of the East among its people.

Representing Russia's Orient

Author : Adalyat Issiyeva
Publisher : AMS Studies in Music
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 0190051361

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Building on long-forgotten archives and detailed case studies, Representing Russia's Orient reveals how complex representations of oriental subjects in nineteenth-century Russian art music, which often merged elements of East and West, contributed to the formation of Russia's national identity.

Representing Russia's Orient

Author : Adalyat Issiyeva
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 019005137X

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Throughout history, Russia's geo-political and cultural position between the East and West has shaped its national identity. Representing Russia's Orient tells the story of how Russia's imperial expansion and encounters with its Asian neighbors influenced the formation and development of Russian musical identity in the long nineteenth century. While Russia's ethnic minorities, or inorodtsy, were located at the geographical and cultural periphery, they loomed large in composers' perception and musical imagination and became central to the definition of Russianness itself. Drawing from a long-forgotten archive of Russian musical examples, visual art, and ethnographies, author Adalyat Issiyeva offers an in-depth study of Russian art music's engagement with oriental subjects. Within a complex matrix of politics, competing ideological currents, and social and cultural transformations, some Russian composers and writers developed multidimensional representations of oriental "others" and sometimes even embraced elements of Asian musical identity. In three detailed case studies--on the leader of the Mighty Five, Milii Balakirev, Decembrist sympathizer Alexander Aliab'ev, and the composers affiliated with the Music-Ethnography Committee--Issiyeva traces how and why these composers adopted "foreign" musical elements. In this way, she provides a fresh look at how Russians absorbed and transformed elements of Asian history and culture in forging a national identity for themselves.

Russian Exceptionalism between East and West

Author : Kevork Oskanian
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030697134

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This monograph provides a novel long-term approach to the role of Russia’s imperial legacies in its interactions with the former Soviet space. It develops ‘Hybrid Exceptionalism’ as a critical conceptual tool aimed at uncovering the great power’s self-positioning between ‘East’ and ‘West’, and its hierarchical claims over subalterns situated in both civilizational imaginaries. It explores how, in the Tsarist, Soviet, and contemporary eras, distinct civilizational spaces were created, and maintained, through narratives and practices emanating from Russia’s ambiguous relationship with Western modernity, and its part-identification with a subordinated ‘Orient’. The Romanov Empire’s struggles with ‘Russianness’, the USSR’s Marxism-Leninism, and contemporary Russia’s combination of feigned liberal and civilizational discourses are explored as the basis of a series of successive civilising missions, through an interdisciplinary engagement with official discourses, scholarship, and the arts. The book concludes with an exploration of contemporary policy implications for the West, and the former Soviet states themselves.

Russian Orientalism

Author : David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300110630

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The West has been accused of seeing the East in a hostile and deprecatory light, as the legacy of nineteenth-century European imperialism. In this highly original and controversial book, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. Exploring the writings, poetry, and art of representative individuals including Catherine the Great, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Borodin, and leading orientologists, Schimmelpenninck argues that the Russian Empire’s bi-continental geography, its ambivalent relationship with the rest of Europe, and the complicated nature of its encounter with Asia have all resulted in a variegated and often surprisingly sympathetic understanding of the East among its people.

Russia's Unknown Orient

Author : Olʹga Atroshchenko
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Exoticism in art
ISBN : 9789056627621

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The Groninger Museum has established a reputation for its successful exhibitions about nienteenth-century Russian art. This is the fifth major exhibition that the Groninger Museum has devoted to Russian art in recent years, continuing the series of exceptional presentations of Ilya Repin's oeuvre, Russian landscapes, the circle around Diaghilev and the exhibition on 'Russian legends, folk tales and fairy tales', which was highly popular with families. In this exhibition the Groninger Museum turns the spotlight on the symbolic, aesthetic and moral aspects of Russia's orient. Exhibition: Groninger Museum (19.12.2010-8.5.2011).

The Russian Orient

Author : David R. Brower
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN :

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The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies

Author : Michael Kemper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1136838546

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The Western field of oriental studies and orientalism - criticised by Edward Said among others for encouraging the orient to be viewed in a particular way - has a counterpart in Russia and the Soviet Union. This book examines this Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of oriental scholarship covering Islamic history and Muslim literatures of the USSR republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus.