Understanding Russianness. Risto Alapuro, Arto Mustajoki, Pekka Pesonen (eds.) London and NY: Routledge, 2012
PART I Language 1
1 The ?West? in the linguistic construction of Russianness in contemporary public discourse 3
LARA RYAZANOVA-CLARKE
2 Attitudes toward the Russian and English languages in Russia and the United States: perceptions of self and the other 19
DAVID R. ANDREWS
3 Russification of Western concepts: political will and crisis in a Russian way 32
ARTO MUSTAJOKI AND EKATERINA PROTASSOVA
4 A Russian view of Western concepts 53
ALEXEI SHMELEV
PART II Society 67
5 Russian ?otherness?: from Chaadaev to the present day 70
VESA OITTINEN
6 From a mother?s worry to Soldiers? Mothers? action: building collective action on personal concerns 84
ANNA COLIN LEBEDEV
7 Opposition substitutes: reflections on the collective action in support of the European University at St Petersburg 99
VADIM VOLKOV
8 Political culture in Russia from a local perspective 111
RISTO ALAPURO AND MARKKU LONKILA
9 Soviet modernity: the case of Soviet fashion 125
JUKKA GRONOW
PART III Culture 137
10 Spiritus loci: two East Karelian folklore epic traditions 140
BORIS GASPAROV
11 Autogenesis in Russian culture: an approach to the avant-garde 165
TOMI HUTTUNEN
12 Two hundred years of poshlost?: a historical sketch of the concept 183
GENNADY OBATNIN
13 The notion of universal bisexuality in Russian religious philosophy 210
EVGENII BERSHTEIN
14 Religious nationalism in contemporary Russia: the case of the Ossetian ethnic religious project 232
SERGEY SHTYRKOV
15 Social networking on the internet: is the Russian way special? 245
ILYA UTEKHIN
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