Russia's Regional Identities

Table of Contents 0. Introduction (Edith W. Clowes, Gisela Erbsloh, and Ani Kokobobo)

Part I: Framing Russia's Regions 1. "The Six Waves of Russian Regionalism in European Context, 1830-2000" (Susan Smith- Peter)

2. "Provinces, Regions, Circles, Grids: How Literature Has Shaped Russian Geographical Identity" (Anne Lounsbery)

Part II: Rethinking European Russian Identities 3. "Militarized Memory: Patriotic Re-branding in Post-Soviet Pskov" (Victoria Donovan)

4. "Wayfinding, Map-making and the Holy Springs of the Orel Region" (Jane Costlow)

5. "`How is Voronezh not Paris?' City Branding in the Russian Provinces" (Lyudmila Parts)

Part III: Russian Identities in the Urals 6. "The Strange Case of a Regional Cultural Revolution: Sverdlovsk in the Perestroika Years" (Mark Lipovetsky)

7. "Enchanted Geographies: Aleksei Ivanov and the Aesthetic Management of Ural Regional Identity" (Bradley Gorski)

Part IV: Russian Identities in Siberia 8. "Siberian Regional Identity: Self-Perception, Solidarity, or Political Claim?" (Alla Anisimova, Olga Echevskaya)

9. "Tomsk Regional Identity and the Legacy of the Gulag and Stalinist Repression" (Wilson T. Bell)

Part V: Regional Identities outside the Orthodox Zone 10. "National Identity in Post-Soviet Tatarstan: Orthodox Missionaries in Twenty-First Century Tatar Literature and Film" (John Romero)

11. "Women, Memory, and Resistance: Dealing with the Soviet Past in the Volga-Ural Region" (Yulia Gradskova)

12. "`Why Does Russia Need Hadji Murat's Head?' Hadji Murat, Dagestani Identity, and Russia's Colonial Exploits" (Ani Kokobobo)

Afterword: "The Power of the Provinces" (Catherine Evtuhov)