Mapping Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia

uncanny homeCategory: type


a place perceived by a writer to be home, which because of various changes has shifted from being deeply familiar to being somehow unfamiliar, and even alien and threatening

Place Based Concepts Having this Component








  • PBC0074: hatred of oppressionplace -- uncanny home -- Siberian region -- independent -- suffering from political coercion -- bad past







  • PBC0081: admirationplace -- uncanny home -- steppe -- nationalist -- love of anarchic freedom
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  • PBC0084: dread of villageplace -- uncanny home -- river -- nationalist -- dread of peasantry
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  • PBC0086: empathy and alienationplace -- uncanny home -- country -- nationalist -- pity for Russians
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  • PBC0087: loyalty to armyplace -- uncanny home -- nation -- nationalist -- loyalty to tsarist army
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  • PBC0088: political alienationplace -- uncanny home -- country -- nationalist -- alienation after defeat




  • PBC0285: pity for desertersplace -- uncanny home -- nation -- nationalist -- pity
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  • PBC0312: shameplace -- uncanny home -- country -- pro-revolution -- shame