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The Nature of Russia's Identity: The Theme of “Russia and the West” in Post-Soviet Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Rosalind Marsh
Rosalind Marsh*
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University of Bath, England, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studiess. Email: R.J.Marsh@bath.ac.uk
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The aim of this essay is to present a brief overview of the treatment in post-Soviet culture and the media, especially in literature, film and publitsistika on historical themes, of certain aspects of the perennial debate about “Russia and the West.” I will ask whether the West is still regarded as Russia's “Other,” or whether, in a period when Russia has been more open to the West than ever before, and Western and Russian tastes in historical and other fiction appear to be converging, such a polar opposition can now be seen as fundamentally outdated.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 35 , Issue 3: Identities, Nations and Politics after Communism , July 2007 , pp. 555 - 578
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Copyright © 2007 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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