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The New Third Rome - Readings of a Russian Nationalist Myth (Paperback)
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The New Third Rome - Readings of a Russian Nationalist Myth (Paperback)
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This in-depth analysis discloses the sources, contents, and
implications of post-Soviet Russian messianism. Since its
rediscovery 150 years ago, writers ranging from Western critics of
Moscow's foreign policy to ardent Russian imperialists have used
the concept of Moscow as the Third Rome as 'evidence' of Russia's
particularism and expansionism. But for the original author of the
formula of the Third Rome, the Orthodox monk Filofei of Pskov, it
was a religious concept he referred to when criticizing what he saw
as the apostasy of his time. This book is the first to look beyond
this dichotomy. Drawing on theories of political myth and concepts
of nationalism, stbo develops a novel analytical perspective.
Rather than dismissing political uses of the religious, medieval
idea as 'wrong', the author analyzes the modern content and
ideological function of the myth of the Third Rome. Through case
studies of four prominent nationalist intellectuals, Vadim
Tsymburskii, Aleksandr Dugin, Nataliia Narochnitskaia and Egor
Kholmogorov, the author shows how this messianic myth is used to
'reinvent' Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These
writers use their own constructed image of the Russian nation to
demonstrate what Russia 'should be' and its allegedly rightful
place in the world. Existing in radically diverging versions, the
myth of the Third Rome routinely conveys rabid anti-Westernism. At
'best', it is employed to forge a self-image of the Russians as an
essentially isolationist civilization. At worst, it is used to
'explain' how the Russians are divinely elected to be the rulers of
a world empire.
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