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Russia's Ideology of Authenticity - Varieties of Conservatism in Russian History from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present (Paperback)
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Russia's Ideology of Authenticity - Varieties of Conservatism in Russian History from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present (Paperback)
Series: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
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In his timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian
geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of
geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for
understanding Russias policies. Specifically, he analyzes such
concepts as Eurasianism, Holy Russia, Russian civilization, Russia
as a continent, Novorossia, and others. He demonstrates that these
concepts reached unprecedented ascendance in the Russian public
debates, tending to overshadow other political and domestic
discussions. Suslov argues that the geopolitical imagination,
structured by these concepts, defines the identity of post-Soviet
Russia, while this complex of geopolitical representations engages,
at the same time, with the broader, international criticism of the
Western liberal world order and aligns itself with the conservative
defense of cultural authenticity across the globe. Geopolitical
ideologies and utopias discussed in the book give the post-Soviet
political mainstream the intellectual instruments to think about
Russias exclusion -- imaginary or otherwise -- from the processes
of a global world which is re-shaping itself after the end of the
Cold War; they provide tools to construct the self-perception of
Russia as a sovereign great-power, a self-sufficient civilisation,
and as one of the poles in a multipolar world; and they help to
establish the Messianic vision of Russia as the beacon of order,
tradition, and morality in a sea of chaos and corruption.
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