The Pursuit of Greatness: Russia's Millennial Dialogue with the West
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The Pursuit of Greatness: Russia's Millennial Dialogue with the West
19.99 €
In the last few decades, the Russian political elite has often declared Russia's claims to great power status. How is this great power discourse structured? Who is it addressed to and what is its foundation?
In his book, Anatoly Reshetnikov reconstructs the thousand-year history of the main concepts associated with political greatness that are used in the discourse of post-Soviet Russia and its political predecessors - the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire, the Muscovite Tsardom and Kievan Rus. The author traces the most important historical moments of Russia's discursive interaction with its Western neighbors and points out the problems of Russia's discursive integration with Europe, which were especially noticeable and relevant in the 18th and 19th centuries - the period when great power governance was established as a separate institution of international relations.
Despite its great historical depth, The Pursuit of Greatness is a book about the present rather than the past. Its main goal is to provide a deep, historically grounded interpretation of the unspoken rules that shape the great power identity of today's Russia and indirectly involve Russia in one international crisis after another.
In his book, Anatoly Reshetnikov reconstructs the thousand-year history of the main concepts associated with political greatness that are used in the discourse of post-Soviet Russia and its political predecessors - the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire, the Muscovite Tsardom and Kievan Rus. The author traces the most important historical moments of Russia's discursive interaction with its Western neighbors and points out the problems of Russia's discursive integration with Europe, which were especially noticeable and relevant in the 18th and 19th centuries - the period when great power governance was established as a separate institution of international relations.
Despite its great historical depth, The Pursuit of Greatness is a book about the present rather than the past. Its main goal is to provide a deep, historically grounded interpretation of the unspoken rules that shape the great power identity of today's Russia and indirectly involve Russia in one international crisis after another.
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