Religion, Expression, and Patriotism in Russia

Dr. Sanna Turoma studied Comparative Literature, Russian, and English in Helsinki and New York. Since 2013, she is Senior Research Fellow in Russian Studies at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. Turoma is the Chair of the Association of Slavists in Finland. Her books include Brodsky Abroad: Empire, Tourism, Nostalgia (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), and the co-edited volumes Empire De/Centered: New Spatial Histories of Russia and the Soviet Union (Ashgate, 2013) as well as Cultural Forms of Political Protest in Russia (Routledge, 2017). Her papers and co-edited special issues have been published by, among other outlets, Cultural Studies, Eurasian Geography and Economics, and Russian Literature. Dr. Kaarina Aitamurto read religious studies in Helsinki. Since 2017, she is Senior Research Fellow in Russian Studies at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. She is the author of Paganism, Traditionalism, Nationalism: Narratives of Russian Rodnoverie (Routledge, 2016) and a co-editor of Modern Pagan and Native Faiths in Central and Eastern Europe (Acumen, 2013) and Migrant Workers in Russia (Routledge, 2016). Her papers have been published by, among other outlets, the Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte, Europe-Asia Studies and Journal of Religion in Europe. Dr. Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover studied Russian, French, and German in Melbourne. Since 2013, she has been an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. Vladiv-Glover is a member of the Executive of the Australasian Association for Communist and Postcommunist Studies, North American Association for Serbian Studies and International Dostoevsky Society. Her previous books include Dostoevsky and the Realists (Peter Lang, 2019) and Russian Postmodernism (Berghahn, 2016, with M. Epstein and A. Genis). Her papers have been published by, among other outlets, Angelaki, Studies in East European Thought, The Soviet & Post-Soviet Review, Southeastern Europe/ L'Europe

"Analyzing war films, mainstream and grassroots religious discourses, and news media, together the chapters make the convincing argument for a new understanding of Russian culture as a "key national asset," structured through conservative patriotism and centered on Orthodoxy (p. 96). [...] the book offers many important research results and is definitely worth reading."-Katharina Wiedlack, The Russian Review, Vol 79/No 4