Mapping Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia

liminal spaceCategory: genre

a liminal space that typically represents some sort of promise of change or a threat to place; transitional area--not a destination, or a place to live or stay, but where encounters with the "other" can happen, and change (both beneficial and deleterious) can happen.

Place Based Concepts Having this Component

  • PBC0027: dread of oppressionliminal space -- road -- Siberian region -- pro-revolution -- dread of political oppression

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Esenin, V tom kraiu, gde zheltaia krapiva…
  • Kazanskii, Dve dorogi
  • Kazanskii, Gimn svobodnoi Sibiri

    • Multivalent Markers

  • Сибирь (Siberia)
  • дорога (road)
  • PBC0032: ecstasy on roadliminal space -- road -- movement in space -- Bolshevik -- ecstasy at coming paradise -- near future

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Germanov, Zhivoi koster
  • Kniazev, Krasnoe Evangelie
  • Stradnyi, Zhnitsa

    • Multivalent Markers

  • восток (east)
  • дорога (road)
  • рай (heaven, paradise)
  • PBC0033: faith in road to futureliminal space -- road -- movement in space -- Bolshevik -- confidence

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Kirillov, Zhretsam iskusstva
  • Kniazev, Krasnoe Evangelie
  • Stradnyi, Russkoi proletarke

    • Multivalent Markers

  • дорога (road)
  • путь (way, path)
  • PBC0036: arrogant confidenceliminal space -- road -- country -- Bolshevik -- Promethean confidence

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Iaroslavskii, Nash put'
  • Pokrass, Belaia armiia, chernyi baron

    • Multivalent Markers

  • Англия (England)
  • путь (way, path)
  • тайга (taiga)
  • PBC0038: rejection of homelandliminal space -- edge -- country -- Bolshevik -- rejection of home

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Maiakovskii, Rossii

    • Multivalent Markers

  • родина (motherland)
  • PBC0041: faith in worker-soldiersliminal space -- front -- city -- Bolshevik -- faith in workers' and soldiers' agency

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Bednyi, Muzhiki (Excerpts)
  • Bednyi, Obmanutym brat'iam v belogvardeiskie okopy

    • Multivalent Markers

  • Петроград (Petrograd)
  • PBC0042: confidence in victoryliminal space -- front -- Volga region -- Bolshevik -- confidence -- epic time

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Bednyi, Na fronte pod Kazan'iu i Samaroi
  • Bednyi, Pod Samaroi

    • Multivalent Markers

  • деревня (village)
  • фронт (battlefront)
  • PBC0043: joy at coming orderliminal space -- edge -- ideal state -- Bolshevik -- ecstasy at new order -- near future

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Aseev, Osen'
  • Iaroslavskii, Leninu
  • Iaroslavskii, Nash put'

    • Multivalent Markers

  • восток (east)
  • грань (edge; facet; border)
  • запад (west)
  • PBC0044: mockery of armyliminal space -- front -- west Russian region -- Bolshevik -- satire of tsarist military

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Bednyi, Durman (excerpts)
  • Bednyi, Muzhiki (Excerpts)

    • Multivalent Markers

  • Брест (Brest)
  • Русь (Rus)
  • рубеж (boundary)
  • фронт (battlefront)
  • PBC0047: pride in sacrificeliminal space -- front -- south Russian region -- nationalist -- yearning for the war zone

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Gret, Boi
  • Gret, V tylu
  • Tsvetaeva, Ia etu knigu poruchaiu vetru…

    • Multivalent Markers

  • Ростов-на-Дону (Rostov-na-Donu)
  • север (north)
  • фронт (battlefront)
  • PBC0049: loyalty to nationliminal space -- front -- south Russian region -- nationalist -- loyalty

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Gret, S fronta
  • Gret, V tylu

    • Multivalent Markers

  • фронт (battlefront)
  • PBC0054liminal space -- front -- foreign place -- Bolshevik -- confidence -- epic time
  • PBC0288: belligerenceliminal space -- front -- Volga region -- Bolshevik -- love of anarchic freedom -- deep past

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Aseev, V'iugi v siiaiushchikh usakh
  • Aseev, Volga
  • Bednyi, Raskazanskoe polozhenie
  • Bogorodskii, Mednaia sila
  • Dorogoichenko, Volga

    • Multivalent Markers

  • Волга (Volga River)
  • Жигули (Zhiguli)
  • село (village)
  • PBC0289liminal space -- front -- Volga region -- Bolshevik -- resolve
  • PBC0306: anxiety at warliminal space -- front -- Volga region -- Proletkult Bolshevik -- anxiety at war -- future

    • Works Using This PBC

  • Gerasimov, V temnuiu dal'

    • Multivalent Markers

  • Русь (Rus)
  • степь (steppe)