Russia on the edge: imagined geographies and post-Soviet identity

Introduction : is Russia a center or a periphery?

Deconstructing imperial Moscow

Postmodernist empire meets Holy Rus : how Aleksandr Dugin tried to change the Eurasian periphery into the sacred center of the world

Illusory empire : Viktor Pelevin's parody of neo-Eurasianism

Russia's deconstructionist westernizer : Mikhail Ryklin's "larger space of Europe" confronts Holy Rus

The periphery and its narratives : Liudmila Ulitskaia's imagined south

Demonizing the post-Soviet other : the Chechens and the Muslim south.

Introduction : is Russia a center or a periphery?

Deconstructing imperial Moscow

Postmodernist empire meets Holy Rus : how Aleksandr Dugin tried to change the Eurasian periphery into the sacred center of the world

Illusory empire : Viktor Pelevin's parody of neo-Eurasianism

Russia's deconstructionist westernizer : Mikhail Ryklin's "larger space of Europe" confronts Holy Rus

The periphery and its narratives : Liudmila Ulitskaia's imagined south

Demonizing the post-Soviet other : the Chechens and the Muslim south.