Performing Russia : Folk Revival and Russian Identity (Paperback)

Introduction 1. The Invention and Re-invention of Folk Music in Pre-Revolutionary Russia 2. A Unified National Style: Folklore Performance in the Soviet Context 3. The Origins of the Russian Folk Revival Movement 4. Revival and Identity after Socialism 5. Power and Ritual: Russian Nationalism and Representations of the Folk, Orthodoxy, Imperial Russia and the Cossackry 6. Performing Masculinity: Cossack Myth and Reality in Post-Soviet Revival Movements 7. The Village Revives 8. Making Memory: How Urban Intellectuals Re-invent Russian Village Traditions