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Author Sheiko, Konstantin

Title History as Therapy
Published Berlin : Ibidem Verlag, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (245 pages)
Series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society ; v. 130
Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society.
Contents Intro; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction: The End of History; Chapter One: Imperial Dilemmas and Historical Therapy; Chapter Two: 'Porridge in the Head': Why a New Future needs a New Past; Chapter Three: Empire, nation, nationalism; Part One: Russia's Multiple Identities; Part Two: Civic or Imperial Nationalism; Part Three: Eurasianism; Chapter Four: Empires of the Mind: Russia's Ancient History; Part One: Scholarly Ruminations; Part Two: The Patriotic Tradition; Part Three: Fomenko, the Terminator; Part Four: The Hyperborean Exodus; Part Five: History as Hoax
Part Six: Civilizations East and WestPart Seven: The Russian Tower of Babel; Part Eight: Good versus Evil; Part Nine: Local Heroes and Family Feuds; Conclusion; Chapter Five: Vikings and Slavs; Part One: Nestor the Normanist and Russophobe; Part Two: Slavs as State Builders; Part Three: Western Plot (1); Part Four: Western Plot (2); Chapter Six: Farewell to the Mongols: Fomenko and his 'Horde'; Part One: Mongols-Demons or Phantoms?; Part Two: Interpretations; Part Three: Fomenko Russifies the Mongols; Part Four: Gumilev and the steppe; Part Five: Western Fantasies
Part Six: Selecting the EvidencePart Seven: How could the Mongols have succeeded when Napoleon and Hitler failed?; Part Eight: Benevolent Invaders; Part Nine: Russian Eurasia?; Part Ten: Russia's Medieval Civil War; Part Eleven: The Russian Columbus; Chapter Seven: Terrible History: the Four Ivans; Part One: Good and Bad Ivans; Part Two: 'How it really was' according to Fomenko; Part Three: The True Boris Godunov and the False Dmitrii; Part Four: Traces of the Horde: the Cossacks; Chapter Eight: Icebreakers; Conclusion; Bibliography
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Subject Historiography -- Russia (Federation)
Historiography.
Politics and government.
SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88003129
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006576
Subject Russia (Federation)
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Stephen
Umland, Andreas
Ostrowski, Donald
ISBN 9783838265650
3838265653