Russia's Regional Identities

Contemporary Russia is often viewed as a centralised regime based in Moscow with dependent provinces made subservient by Putin’s policies limiting regional autonomy. This book however demonstrates that beyond this largely political view by looking at Russia’s regions more in cultural and social terms a quite different picture emerges of a Russia rich in variety with different regional identities cultures traditions and memories. The book explores how identities are formed and rethought in contemporary Russia and outlines the nature of particular regional identities from Siberia and the Urals to southern Russia from the Russian heartland to the non-Russian republics.