Russia's Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods by Vera Tolz

Russia's Own Orient: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods

Vera Tolz

203 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

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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 i...

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