Journal Title
Title of Journal: Stud East Eur Thought
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Abbravation: Studies in East European Thought
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Serguei Alex Oushakine
Publish Date: 2007/09/12
Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 171-193
Abstract
Based on materials collected during a fieldwork in Barnaul Siberia Russia in 2001–2004 the article explores two provincial academic discourses that are focused on issues of Russian national identity Ethnohistories of trauma address Russia’s current problems through the constant rewriting of the country’s past in order to demonstrate the nonRussian character of its national and state institutions In the second discourse ethnovitalism the struggle over constructing and interpreting the nation’s memory of the past is replaced with a similar struggle over constructing and interpreting perceptions of the nation’s current experience Produced by professional intelligentsia these frameworks and discourses provide a useful link to understanding imaginary constructions of the national belonging in a situation where more positive ways of inventing traditions and imagining communities are unavailable or discredited
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