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Tears in the patchwork: The Sochi Olympics and the display of a multiethnic nation

Edenborg, Emil LU (2013) In Euxeinos p.15-25
Abstract
This article examines what image of Russia is being projected in official rhetoric about the Sochi Olympics. It is argued that the imagined community being displayed is a diverse, inclusive and tolerant nation, even an international example of ethnic conviviality. The article puts this narrative in historical perspective, relating it to the mnogonatsionalnost policies of tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. This imagination, though explicitly very inclusive, rests on important exclusions and silences. By selective exhibitions of minority-groups the other is domesticated, stereotyped and reduced to kitsch and folklore, glossing over conflict-ridden histories and prevailing inequalities.
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15 - 25
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Universitaet St. Gallen * Center fuer Governance und Kultur in Europa
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2296-0708
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English
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  title        = {{Tears in the patchwork: The Sochi Olympics and the display of a multiethnic nation}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/4053081/4935223.pdf}},
  year         = {{2013}},
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