The Meaning and Paradox of Nationalism: A Study on the Cultural Transformation of Russia at the Turn of the 20th-21st Centuries

Author: Lin Jinhua
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: In studying the important topic of the relationship between cultural transformation at the turn of the century in Russia and the orientation of nationalism, the author of this paper lacks the courage and is also unable to involve all the complex aspects and exhaust all the significant meanings contained within it. Instead, the author hopes to describe and analyze the variant characteristics of the nationalist tradition in the cultural transformation of this turn of the century in the process of globalization, the specific nationalist responses to the invasion of post-colonialism, and how nationalism has influenced cultural concepts, the reconstruction of cultural studies and literary history, as well as the relationship between the narrative strategies of postmodernist literature and mass culture and nationalism, among other contradictory issues. This book includes: The issue of nationalism in the cultural transformation of Russia: Traditional culture and global consciousness; Various phenomena of contemporary Russian nationalism: Responding to post-colonialism.