If we say (and show) enough times that there are no more questions that need to be asked about the nature and future of Russia, it will become true
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The Poet and the Crowd (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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The Fandom Menace (Russia’s Alien Nations
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A Song of Orcs and Trolls (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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Salting the Earth (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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Orknash: Supporting the Home Team (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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The Orc identity imagines rejection by the West, only to turn the Orc into an imaginary weapon against the West.
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Off the Reservation (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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The “Orc question” becomes much more provocative when seen in terms of internal cultural dynamics.
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Orcs Online (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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Or(c)ientalism (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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If the appeal to literary fantasy might seem to cheapen ideological discourse, then this is a job well done.
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How to Read Like an Orc (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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There and Back Again (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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The Abuses of Enchantment (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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The Fellowship of the Wrong (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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Evil Empire: Love It or Leave It (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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Sith Lords of the World, Unite! (Russia’s Alien Nations)
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The very last people who can determine what is universal bout such stories is the Anglo-Saxon audience.
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