Russia's Regional Museums
Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society
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Russia's Regional Museums
Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society
About this book
This book presents the results of extensive research into the very interesting phenomenon of local museumsâkraevedschskyi museumsâin Russia's regions. It outlines how numerous such museums are, how long they have existed, what they display, and how this has changed, or not, from Soviet times up to the present. It shows how the museums' displays often are about nature, history, and society. It goes on to discuss how what is portrayed represents particular interpretations of knowledgeâ including the heroism of the Soviet past, a colonial-style view of Russia's very many non-Russian people, and the failure to mention things which might present Russia in a critical way. The book is much more than 'museum studies': it sheds a great deal of light on how Russians think about themselves and about how this self-view is fostered, and it also highlights the vast regional differences which exist in Russia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on transliteration
- List of figures
- Introduction
- 1 Cultural myths and common silences in (post-)Soviet museums
- 2 âAsk anyone; itâs just around the cornerâ: kraevedenie museums in the Russian cityscape
- 3 A brief overview of the history of Russian regional museums
- 4 âArctic tundra. Forest. Desertâ: constructing nature in kraevedenie museums
- 5 Natureâhuman relations in contemporary kraevedenie museums
- 6 âFrom ancient times to the present dayâ: the construction of history
- 7 Representations of the Great Terror: from denial to understanding?
- 8 âA northern man with a harpoonâ: representing a socialist society and creating âothersâ
- 9 Creating âthe otherâ in contemporary Russian kraevedenie museums
- 10 Creating (post-)Soviet taxonomies: cultural myths and âcommon unsaidsâ
- Index