IDEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE IN MODERN RUSSIA: PERSPECTIVESOF FORMING RUSSIAN IDENTITY

CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN RUSSIA Religion in Modern Russian History

The essay below, written for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History, attempts to address the role of religion in Russia over the last three centuries or so. As such, it serves as a useful introduction to at least some of the issues that we will address in this course. The article is notable for its attempt to address all of Russia’s various religions, and thus to set the issu...

"Russian nervousness": neurasthenia and national identity in nineteenth-century Russia.

"Nothing dies so hard as a word", wrote Harry Quilter in 1892, "-particularly a word nobody understands."' At the end of the nineteenth century, one such word-first uttered in America, but soon reverberating across the Western world-was "neurasthenia". Popularized by the American neurologist George M Beard, this vaguely defined nervous disorder seemed to crop up everywhere, from medical journal...

Sri Aurobindo, India, and ideological discourse

The first part of this essay considers Sri Aurobindo’s nationalism and contextualizes it within the colonial-national interchange and the modern understanding of the nation. It then problematizes Hindutva’s attempts to reductively appropriate Sri Aurobindo’s pluralistic and evolutionary nationalism. In the second part, a close reading is conducted of a well-known nationalist speech of Sri Aurob...

Human Rights and Foreign Policy Discourse in Today's Russia: Romantic Realism and Securitisation of Identity

Constitutive Features of the Russian Political Discourse in Ecolinguistic Aspect

The article offers a comparative description of typological mechanisms used in political communicative practice and methods of verbal explication of its axiological and symbolic constituents determining universal mental features of individual/collective consciousness. The research position based on a systemic multilevel analysis of the component structure of discourse facilitates the identifica...