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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Sobstvennyi Vostok Rossii": Politika Identichnosti i Vostokovedenie v Pozdneimperskii i Rannesovetskii Period
[ Sobstvennyi Vostok Rossii": Politika Identichnosti i Vostokovedenie v Pozdneimperskii i Rannesovetskii Period]
Russia`s Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods Transl. from English by the author
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2012 336 p Serie: Istoriia nauki Hardcover. 13.5 x 21 cm ISBN: 9785444800584 Language: Russian
Russia`s Own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St. Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge, and about Europe and Asia as mere political and cultural constructs. Their ideas anticipated the work of Edward Said and post-colonial scholarship by half a century. The similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical. Said was indebted, via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied in the Soviet Union, to the revisionist ideas of Russian Orientologists of the fin de siecle. (0.425 kg.)
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