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Geopolitical Imagination: Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia

Geopolitical Imagination: Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia

Suslov, Mikhail

Paperback

Series: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

General Political Science

ISBN10: 3838213610
ISBN13: 9783838213613
Publisher: Ibidem Pr
Published: Dec 29 2020
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
In this timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russia's 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 Russia's 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 civilization, 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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