An Atlantis discovered
Riga’s Moskovskii forshtadt in the Russophone interwar imagination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11264362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Joseph Musachio (Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 829-849 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Baltic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-9778 • E-ISSN: 1751-7877 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01629778.2024.2306417 |
| OpenAlex | W4391532591 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This article relates literary and journalistic representations of Riga’s historic Russophone neighborhood, the Moskоvskii forshtadt, to the interwar conversation on the future of ‘Russia’ outside of the Soviet Union. My analysis begins with a close reading of Georgii Ivanov’s sketch, ‘Moskovskii Forshtadt.’ I then contrast Ivanov’s sketch with local Latvian Russophone accounts of the forshtadt, published in the Riga newspapers Segodnya and Segodnya vecherom. In studying representations and discourses, I reveal how the discursive space generated by the forshtadt contains three different understandings of Russian nationhood in its diasporic, extraterritorial existence of the interwar period
Art · Interwar period · Political science · World War II · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |