At the Edge of the Nation: The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia’s National Identity 9780824875473

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Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
Note on the Transliteration
Acknowledgments
1. New Identities in a New World
2. The Politics of National Identity and the Story of the Southern Kurils
3. Overcoming Empire: The Liberal Institutionalists
4. “It Is Forbidden to Be Quiet–Russia Is Being Taken to Pieces!”
5. Putin and Pragmatic Patriotism
6. The Cult of the Border
7. The Southern Kurils and the “Hyperborder”
8. Central Power Redux
9. Conclusion: The End and Beginning of the Nation
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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