Region Volume 5 No.2
Special Issue: Centrifugal Forces? Russia’s Regional Identities and Initiatives
Edith W. Clowes
Introduction 117
Alla Anisimova and Olga Echevskaia
Reading Post-Soviet (Trans)formations of Siberian
Identity through Biographical Narrative 127
Edith W. Clowes
Branding Tiumen’: Official Image and Local Initiatives 149
Kathryn E. Graber
The All-Buriat “Ray of Light”: Independence and Identity in Native-Language Media 175
Gisela Erbslöh
Seeking Chechen Identity between Repression and
Self-Determination under the Ramzan Kadyrov Regime 201
Austin Charron
Whose is Crimea? Contested Sovereignty and Regional Identity 225
Book Reviews
Michael Paulauskas
Kiril Tomoff. Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet Music and Imperial
Competition during the Early Cold War, 1945–1958 257
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Stephen A. Smith. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism 261
Notes on the Contributors 265
Style Sheet and Submission Guidelines 269