How will the future leaders of Russia regard the world scene? How
will they regard the United States, democracy, free speech, and
immigration? What do they think of their current leaders? And what
sorts of tactics will they bring to international negotiating
tables, political and otherwise? Featuring a new introduction to
the paperback that critiques the emerging theory of media
weaponization, No Illusions: The Voices of Russia's Future Leaders
provides an engaging, intimate, and unprecedented window into the
mindsets of the next generation of leaders in Russian politics,
business, and economics. In this book, one hundred and eight
students in Russia's three most elite universities, the training
grounds for the nation's leadership, reveal their thoughts on
international relations, neighboring countries, domestic and
international media, democratic movements, and their government in
focus groups; they speak candidly, passionately, and sometimes
sardonically about the United States. As well, Ellen Mickiewicz,
one of the world's foremost experts on Russian media, politics, and
culture, shows how their total immersion in the world of the
internet - an immersion that sets them apart from the current
generation of Russian leadership and much of the rest of the
country - frames the way that they think and affects their trust in
their leaders, the media, and their colleagues. Their worldviews
are complex and often contradictory, reflecting complicated
personalities that are adaptable yet also subject to much internal
strife and "splintering." For example, while many of them are
planning to go into politics, they express ambivalence about
voting; they have favorable views of democracy, but not of the
American model; they are shrewd critics of government propaganda
and yet have clearly absorbed residue of Cold War defensiveness.
Mickiewicz also looks at the nation's massive protests and nascent
political movements to show how they came about and to consider
what promise they might hold even in times of narrowing
opportunities. She profiles several of Russia's up-and-coming
leaders, including charismatic and controversial activist and
politician Aleksei Navalny, who, even during his legal trials and
house arrest, remains the face of the opposition to the Putin
regime. As this book shows, the next generation of Russian
leadership promises to hold a rather different worldview from that
of the current one, yet it is not a worldview that readily embraces
American democracy. No Illusions is a thought-provoking and often
surprising glimpse into the future of Russia's foreign relations.
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