"Russian identity" sources - thank you

[Valentino, Russell]

Sinyavsky's Soviet Civilization is right on the cusp of this and worth a look, esp. on the "amorphousness" of the Russian national character.

Russell Valentino

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Thank you to everyone who replied  to my query on Russian national
identity.  I was inquiring on behalf of a student who is writing her senior
thesis on "the shift in Russian political identity since the fall of the
Soviet Union."  Any further suggestions on or off list would be appreciated.
Here's what we have so far:

1. http://www.loc.gov/about/librarianoffice/speeches/0303.html

The Search for a New Russian National Identity

2. Jeff Brooks, *When Russia Learned to Read , *especially Chapter Six,
"Nationalism and National Identity," pp. 214-245.

3. A Documentary History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to
Marxism by W.J. Leatherbarrow and Derek Offord (Paperback - 31 Dec 1987).

4. Tolz, Vera. Russia: Inventing the Nation, 2001. (London: Arnold, and New
York: Oxford University Press).

- Vera Tolz "The Search for National Identity in Yeltsin's and Putin's
Russia," in Jonathan Frankel and Stefani Hoffman (eds.), The Fall of
Communism in Europe, 2004. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp.
160-178.

5. Robin-Milner-Gulland*, The Russians *(Wiley-Blackwell, 2000) (various
manifestations of Russian identity in visual arts and literature.)

6. Nicholas Riazanovsky, *The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History
and Thought* (Oxford University Press, 1992)
"the notion of identity in relation to the assessment of Peter the Great's
reforms by various historians and thinkers. It's an excellent source of
information that covers 18th, 19th and 20th centuries."

7. Caryl Emerson,  *The Cambridge Introduction to Russian
Literature*(Cambridge University Press 2008) ("provides a wonderful
overview of Russian
culture as well as literature. It contains various references to important
Russian beliefs, traditional narratives, attitudes to the West, the role of
Petersburg and Moscow in Russian artistic imagination, etc.")

8. Laura Olson, *Performing Russia* (on the use of folk performance -with an
emphasis on the 1970s and 80s- in constructions of Russianness).

9. Vladimir Mylnikov - meditation on the theme of of Russianness
from Vladimir Sorokin¹s "O liubvi ko vsemu russkomu²".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6EFLi9819I

10. A. V. Sergeeva, "Kakie my, russkie?" (published by Russkij yazyk).
  and *Russkie stereotipy Povedeniya Traditsii Mental'nost' *(Flinta-Nauka,
Moskva, 2004)

11. Petr Chaadaev's philosophical letters - especially the first!

12.  Simon Franklin and Emma Widdis,eds.,  *National Identity in Russian
Culture. An Introduction* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

13. Books by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere:
*-Russian Nationalism from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Imagining
Russia.*  Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, New York, 2000
*-The Slave Soul of Russia:  Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering.*
New York University Press, 1995
see also http://rancour-laferriere.com/complete_publications/index.html

14. K.Kas'yanova, O russkom natsional'nom kharaktere, M., 1994

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