Simon Franklin. National Identity in Russian Culture: An Introduction

Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 260 p. - ISBN: 0-521-83926-2What is Russia? Who are Russians? What is “Russianness”? The question of national identity has long been a vexed one in Russia, and is particularly pertinent in the post-Soviet period. For a thousand years, these questions have been central to the work of Russian writers, artists, musicians, film-makers, critics, politicians, and philosophers.Notes on contributorsNote on the transliteration of Russian
identities in time and space
contrastive identities: ‘us’ and ‘them’
‘essential’ identities
symbols of identitySelected further reading in English