Contributors: Eine Alt, Natalia Baschmakoff, Aleksandr Belousov, Elena Dushechkina,
Paul Fryer, Tuulikki Kurki, Simo Leisti, Mari Raami, Irina Razumova,
Mari Ristolainen, Olga Zmeeva. The present volume focuses on questions of how texts as mental
constructs produce and reproduce, tell and retell narratives about
communities, and how communities perceive, reproduce and dissolve these
texts into specific community-building discourses. The authors examine the texts produced by Soviet and post-Soviet
communities from a variety of perspectives, including those of literary
research, cultural studies, history, human geography, folklore studies
and ethnography. This volume represents the proceedings of the
conference /Post-Soviet Readings of Texts: Demystifying Russianness/
held at the University of Joensuu in October 2005.
