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A Clash Of Fictions: Geopolitics In Recent Russian And Ukrainian Literature, Yvonne Howell
A Clash Of Fictions: Geopolitics In Recent Russian And Ukrainian Literature, Yvonne Howell
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When the vast, multinational Soviet empire collapsed in 1991, the geopolitical structure it had struggled to maintain for most of the 20111 century - often by means of brutal repression and forced remobilization of entire populations - proved itself in the eyes of many to be fatally out of sync with the epochal norm of the nation-state. By the end of the 18th century, people in many parts of the world had begun to "imagine themselves" as nations and to organize politically into states whose primary function would be to protect, nurture, and (in a kind of Romantic feedback loop) …