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Andrei Rublev
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Baba Yaga
Byzantium
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Catherine II
collective memory research
Dense
Easter Egg
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ethnic group identity
Fairy Tale
Holy Russia
Imperial Eagle
Ivan III
Ivan IV
Kievan Rus
Matrioshka Doll
metaphor analysis
Mother Russia
national identity studies
Nicholas III
Orthodox Christianity symbols
Petersburg
Russian cultural symbolism
Russian Idea
Russian Language
Russian Orthodox Church
Sergei Bulgakov
St Petersburg
symbolic construction of Russian identity
Symbolic Terrain
Violated
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367134044
- Weight: 710g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 1998, in this book, a number of stereotypes, symbols and signs of Russia, such as the double-headed eagle, the star, bread-and-salt, troika, the Orthodox cross, etc., are presented as a consistent set of metaphors, revealing a symbolic world made by and for the Russians in order to sustain and reinforce their group identity. The Russian language, culture and history form the basic core of the symbolic archive, or thesaurus, of Russianness, from which the necessary images, symbols and signs of identification are provided to manifest connection with the sphere of Russian identity. Such symbolism may directly or obliquely refer either to the territory (soil) of Russia, or to the ethnically specific traits of the Russian people (soul). Both soil and soul are emphatically personified in the symbolic image of Holy Russia - Mother Russia.
Elena Hellberg-Hirn, Professor, Senior Researcher, Academy of Finland, Finland
