Dear RUSSIAN-STUDIES Subscribers,

 

We would like to announce a new publication from Cornell University Press, which we hope will be of interest.

 

Border Conditions

Russian-Speaking Latvians between World Orders

Kevin M. F. Platt

 

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501773709/border-conditions/

 

 

Available in print and digital formats

 

 

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Border Conditions combines history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to examine lives at the limits of contemporary Europe: Russian speakers living in Latvia. Since the fall of the USSR in 1991, Latvia's Russian speakers have balanced between Russia and Europe as well as a socialist past, a capitalist and liberal present, and an illiberal regime rising in the Russian Federation. Kevin M. F. Platt describes how members of this population have defined themselves through art, literature, cultural institutions, film, and music—and how others have sought to define them.

At the end of the Cold War, many anticipated that societies globally could agree on the meaning of past history and a just politics in the present. The view from the borders of Europe demonstrates the contradictions pertaining to terms like empire, state socialism, liberalism, and nation that have made it impossible to achieve a consensus. In refocusing the examination of state socialism's aftermath around questions of empire and postcolonialism, Border Conditions helps us understand the distinctions between Russian and Western worldviews driving military confrontation to this day.

Kevin M. F. Platt is Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He writes on history and memory in Russia and Eastern Europe, global Russophone and global socialist culture, and contemporary Russian-language

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Combined Academic Publishers

 

Cornell University Press | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | February 2024 | 342pp | 9781501773709 | HB | £51.00*

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