ABSTRACT

The meaning of Russia's past is in a process of continuous deconstruction, reshaping and negotiation by various social and political groupings. Of the deluge of group memories which have broken loose, this collection focuses on several new voices which have never been heard in Russia in this way before: women, Tatars, Cossacks, as well as the voices of religious and provincial populations. In addition, the volume sheds light on the creation of a multi-party system which paved the way for the expression of particular views and interests and generated much of memory's concepts and language.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter |26 pages

The Uses of Memory

The Russian Province in Search of Its Past

chapter |56 pages

A Russian City between Two Continents

The Tatars of Orenburg and State Power

chapter |35 pages

From Estate to Ethnos

The Changing Nature of Cossack Identity in the Twentieth Century