Includes bibliographical references and index.

Eurasianism and intellectual construction of space. The empire of language: space and structuralism in Russian Eurasianism / Sergey Glebov ; Between Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia: George Vernadsky's search for identity / Igor Torbakov ; Space as destiny: legitimizing the empire through geography and cosmos / Marl�ene Laruelle -- Spatial science and geographical knowledge. The mapping of illiberal modernity: spatial science, ideology and the state in early twentieth century Russia / Nick Baron ; Regionalization, imperial legacy and the Soviet geographical tradition / Marina Loskutova -- Political and cultural economy of the (post)-Soviet space. The controlled space of socialist internationalism and its transgression: COMECON energy projects between 1970 and 1990 / Ulrich Best ; Representations of post-Soviet space in the contemporary Russian political-economic discussion / Katri Pynn�oniemi ; Debating Soviet imperialism in contemporary Poland / Tomasz Zarycki -- Representing empire: media, art, literature. Playing games with empire: Finnish political imaginaries on the early Soviet state / Anni Kangas ; Imperiia re/constructed: narratives of space and nation in the 1960s Soviet Russian culture / Sanna Turoma ; Picturing infinity: space race and the cosmic landscape / Iina Kohonen ; Eccentric orbit: mapping Russian culture in the Baltic / Kevin Platt.

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