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Understanding Russia - The Challenges of Transformation (Hardcover)
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Understanding Russia - The Challenges of Transformation (Hardcover)
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This timely book provides a balanced and comprehensive overview of
the geographical, historical, political, cultural, and geostrategic
factors that drive Russia today. Russia has long inspired fear in
the West, but as the authors argue, Russia is fearful as well.
Three decades after the transformations launched by perestroika,
multiple ghosts haunt both Russian elites and ordinary citizens,
ranging from concerns about territorial challenges, societal
transformations, and economic decline to worries about the
country's vulnerability to external intervention. Faced with a West
that emerged victorious from the Cold War, a shockingly dynamic
China, and former Soviet republics claiming their right to
emancipate themselves from Moscow's stranglehold, Russia is
constantly questioning its identity, its development path, and its
role on the international scene. The country hesitates between two
strategies: take refuge in a new isolation and revive the old
notion of being a "besieged fortress," or replay the messianic myth
of a Third Rome, the last bastion of Christian values in the face
of a decadent West. Explaining Russia's perspective, Marlene
Laruelle and Jean Radvanyi offers a much-needed analysis that will
help readers understand how the country deals with its domestic
issues and how these influence Russian foreign policy.
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