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Author | : Peter J. S. Duncan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134744765 |
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This is the first book in English for half a century to examine the complexities of Russian messianism, both as a whole and in its interaction with Communism. Peter Duncan considers its Orthodox roots and focuses on Russia's geopolitical experience and situation to explain the endurance of this phenomenon.
Author | : Alicja Curanović |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2021-03-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000352692 |
Download The Sense of Mission in Russian Foreign Policy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores how far messianism, the conviction that Russia has a special historical destiny, is present in, and affects, Russian foreign policy. Based on extensive original research, including analysis of public statements, policy documents and opinion polls, the book argues that a sense of mission is present in Russian foreign policy, that it is very similar in its nature to thinking about Russia’s mission in Tsarist times, that the sense of mission matters more for Russia’s elites than for Russia’s masses, and that Russia’s special mission is emphasised more when there are questions about the regime’s legitimacy as well as great power status. Overall, the book demonstrates that a sense of mission is an important factor in Russian foreign policy.
Author | : Peter J. S. Duncan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134744773 |
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This unique work will be of great interest to those engaged in politics and Russian studies, as well as professionals dealing with Russia.
Author | : Nikolai Berdyaev |
Publisher | : SteinerBooks |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1992-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1584204923 |
Download The Russian Idea Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It is between the ages of nine and ten that children begin to experience themselves as "I" for the first time--as separate individuals, different from their parents and peers and essentially alone. This inner experience is sometimes precipitated by the child's first encounter with death and the first notion that earthly life is fragile and temporary. In this insightful book, Koepke offers the reader a lucid, accessible description of the outer signs and symptoms of this significant turning point in every child's life.
Author | : Marlene Laruelle |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2018-10-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429761988 |
Download Russian Nationalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book, by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, explores the complex nature of Russian nationalism. It examines nationalism as a multilayered and multifaceted repertoire displayed by a myriad of actors. It considers nationalism as various concepts and ideas emphasizing Russia’s distinctive national character, based on the country’s geography, history, Orthodoxy, and Soviet technological advances. It analyzes the ideologies of Russia’s ultra-nationalist and far-right groups, explores the use of nationalism in the conflict with Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, and discusses how Putin’s political opponents, including Alexei Navalny, make use of nationalism. Overall the book provides a rich analysis of a key force which is profoundly affecting political and societal developments both inside Russia and beyond.
Author | : Igal Halfin |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2009-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822973529 |
Download Stalinist Confessions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
During Stalin's Great Terror, accusations of treason struck fear in the hearts of Soviet citizens-and lengthy imprisonment or firing squads often followed. Many of the accused sealed their fates by agreeing to confessions after torture or interrogation by the NKVD. Some, however, gave up without a fight. In Stalinist Confessions, Igal Halfin investigates the phenomenon of a mass surrender to the will of the state. He deciphers the skillfully rendered discourse through which Stalin defined his cult of personality and consolidated his power by building a grassroots base of support and instilling a collective psyche in every citizen. By rooting out evil (opposition) wherever it hid, good communists could realize purity, morality, and their place in the greatest society in history. Confessing to trumped-up charges, comrades made willing sacrifices to their belief in socialism and the necessity of finding and making examples of its enemies.Halfin focuses his study on Leningrad Communist University as a microcosm of Soviet society. Here, eager students proved their loyalty to the new socialism by uncovering opposition within the University. Through their meetings and self-reports, students sought to become Stalin's New Man. Using his exhaustive research in Soviet archives including NKVD records, party materials, student and instructor journals, letters, and newspapers, Halfin examines the transformation in the language of Stalinist socialism. From an initial attitude that dismissed dissent as an error in judgment and redeemable through contrition to a doctrine where members of the opposition became innately wicked and their reform impossible, Stalin's socialism now defined loyalty in strictly black and white terms. Collusion or allegiance (real or contrived, now or in the past) with "enemies of the people" (Trotsky, Zinoviev, Bukharin, Germans, capitalists) was unforgivable. The party now took to the task of purging itself with ever-increasing zeal.
Author | : Alexey Vasiliev |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2018-03-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351348868 |
Download Russia's Middle East Policy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This extraordinary book charts the development of Russia’s relations with the Middle East from the 1950s to the present. It covers both high and low points – the closeness to Nasser’s Egypt, followed by reversal; the successful invasion of Afghanistan which later turned into a disaster; the changing relationship with Israel which was at some time surprisingly close; the relationship with Syria, which continues to be of huge significance; and much more. Written by one of Russia’s leading Arabists who was himself involved in the formation and implementation of policy, the book is engagingly written, extremely insightful, telling us things which only the author is in a position to tell us, and remarkably frank, not sparing senior Soviet and Russian figures from criticism. The book includes material based on the author’s conversations with other leading participants.
Author | : Alicja Curanović |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2021-03-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000352773 |
Download The Sense of Mission in Russian Foreign Policy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores how far messianism, the conviction that Russia has a special historical destiny, is present in, and affects, Russian foreign policy. Based on extensive original research, including analysis of public statements, policy documents and opinion polls, the book argues that a sense of mission is present in Russian foreign policy, that it is very similar in its nature to thinking about Russia’s mission in Tsarist times, that the sense of mission matters more for Russia’s elites than for Russia’s masses, and that Russia’s special mission is emphasised more when there are questions about the regime’s legitimacy as well as great power status. Overall, the book demonstrates that a sense of mission is an important factor in Russian foreign policy.
Author | : Joint Committee on Slavic Studies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Authority |
ISBN | : |
Download Continuity and Change in Russian and Soviet Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mikhail Suslov |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2024-02-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1003847676 |
Download Putinism – Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A key question for the contemporary world: What is Putin’s ideology? This book analyses this ideology, which it terms “Putinism”. It examines a range of factors that feed into the ideology – conservative thought in Russia from the nineteenth century onwards, Russian and Soviet history and their memorialisation, Russian Orthodox religion and its political connections, a focus on traditional values, and Russia’s sense of itself as a unique civilisation, different from the West and due a special, respected place in the world. The book highlights that although the resulting ideology lacks coherence and universalism comparable to that of Soviet-era Marxism-Leninism, it is nevertheless effective in aligning the population to the regime and is flexible and applicable in different circumstances. And that therefore it is not attached to Putin as a person, is likely to outlive him, and is potentially appealing elsewhere in the world outside Russia, especially to countries that feel belittled by the West and let down by the West’s failure to resolve problems of global injustice and inequality.