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Who Gets the Past?
The diversion of scholarship on ethnicity by political forces has been studied in Nazi Germany, where folklore became central to national self-perception and consequently suffered from uncritical enthusiasms. Who Gets the Past? is one of the first studies of this phenomenon in another arena. In the Middle Volga region of Russia, the intellectuals of two ethnic groups are engaged in a protracted competition for the right to claim descent from various ancestries, most dating back to the first millennium A.D. Archeologists from both the Chuvash and the Tatar ethnic groups are attempting to present evidence connecting the groups with Turkic-speakers, Finnish-Ugric groups, Bulgars, or Sarmatians....
Monuments and Identities in the Caucasus
This is the first multidisciplinary volume whose focus is on the barely accessible highlands between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and their invaluable artistic heritage. Numerous ancient and mediaeval monuments of Artsakh/Karabagh and Nakhichevan find themselves in the crucible of a strife involving mutually exclusive national accounts. They are gravely endangered today by the politics of cultural destruction endorsed by the modern State of Azerbaijan. This volume contains seventeen contributions by renowned scholars from eight nations, rare photographic documentation and a detailed inventory of all the monuments discussed. Part 1 explores the historical geography of these lands and their architecture. Part 2 analyses the development of Azerbaijani nationalism against the background of the centuries-long geopolitical contest between Russia and Turkey. Part 3 documents the loss of monuments and examines their destruction in the light of international law governing the protection of cultural heritage.
The Soviet Union
The book analyzes Soviet society as a 'hard reality', emphasizes the varying perceptions of it in the Soviet Union and the US, and insists that, while glorifications of the Soviet reality have been useful, the most accurate descriptions of this reality were critical.
Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets
Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets examines indigenous, post-Soviet religious revival in the Republic of Buryatia through the lens of Bakhtin's chronotope. Comparing histories from Buddhist, shamanic and civic rituals, Quijada offers a new lens for analyzing ritual and an innovative approach to the ethnographic study of how people know their past.
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Russian Neo-pagan Myths and Antisemitism
Neopaganism is a conspicuous branch of contemporary Russian nationalism, finding its expression in a number of extremist organizations and periodicals. It adopted the Aryan myth (usually identifying Aryans with ancient Slavs). The ideology of extremist racism mixes Russian nationalism and mysticism. Neopagans present early and modern history as a Manichaean conflict between good Aryans and evil Jews who are seeking to subjugate the world. Christianity is seen as the main evil entity brought by the Jews into the Aryan world. The Bolshevik Revolution is said to be the result of a Jewish plot. The neopagans have produced mystical pseudo-historical literature which has had some popular success. Dwells on the ideologies of the Union of Veneds, the Vedic movement, and some other groups, as well as of such authors as Valerii Yemelyanov, Yurii Nikitin, Vladimir and Dmitrii Kandyba, and Viktor Bezverkhii. Russian neopaganism is greatly influenced by Nazi ideas and those of the New Age movement.
