Graduate Student, Department of foreign languages
Thesis Title: An analysis of the use of the concept ‘Moscow – the Third Rome’ in Russian intellectual nationalist discourse after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Jostein Børtnes
Pål Kolstø |
About
I study Russian history of ideas, especially the post-Soviet period. I am particularly interested in the connection between past and future, i.e. how Russian intellectuals use history and historical myths to define what Russia "really" is, and the desired political consequences thereof.
I am also involved in an international project studying the image of the "Russian bear" in Russia and European countries:
http://cens.ivanovo.ac.ru/russianbear.htm
http://www.toya.net.pl/~delazari/index_pliki/RussiaBear.htm
My article on the stereotype "the Russian bear" in Norwegian newspapers 1998-2008 will appear next spring in the anthology "Russkii medved': istoriia, semiotika, politika".
Summary: http://cens.ivanovo.ac.ru/abstracts/ostbo-2008.html
