6. Demonizing the Post-Soviet Other: The Chechens and the Muslim South

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations xvii
5. Introduction: Is Russia a Center or a Periphery? 1
6. 1. Deconstructing Imperial Moscow 19
7. 2. Postmodernist Empire Meets Holy Rus': How Aleksandr Dugin Tried to Change the Eurasian Periphery into the Sacred Center of the World 43
8. 3. Illusory Empire: Viktor Pelevin’s Parody of Neo-Eurasianism 68
9. 4. Russia’s Deconstructionist Westernizer: Mikhail Ryklin’s “Larger Space of Europe” Confronts Holy Rus' 96
10. 5. The Periphery and Its Narratives: Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Imagined South 120
11. 6. Demonizing the Post-Soviet Other: The Chechens and the Muslim South 140
12. Conclusion 165
13. Index 173