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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 cen
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- Author
- Tolz, Vera.
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191725067
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Political Science, Social History
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- "Собственный Восток России". Политика идентичности и востоковедения в позднеимперский и раннесоветский период: [перевод с английского] (2013)
- Russia's Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History) (2011)
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