The empire strikes back: War without war and occupation without occupation in the Russian sphere of influence

American Ethnologist

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 405-413

  Dunn, Elizabeth Cullen ^a   Bobick, Michael S ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Empire; Russia; Satire; Sovereignty; Spectacle; Ukraine; War

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906044185     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12086     Document Type: Article

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