Chasing greatness : on Russia's discursive interaction with the West over the past millennium / Anatoly Reshetnikov

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Reshetnikov, Anatoly [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Configurations$dcritical studies of world politicsPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, March 2024Copyright date: © 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 272 Seiten) : DiagrammeISBN:

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Contents:

Introduction : great power vs. velikaya derzhava

Absolute greatness : origins and early evolution

Theatrical greatness : from majesty to glory

Troubled encounter : back to absolute?

Failed synthesis : modernization through self-revelation

A world apart : the rise and fall of international socialist greatness

Conclusion : uses, legacies, and traps of greatness in post-Soviet Russia

Summary: Over the last two decades, it has become clear that Russia insists on its great power status, even at considerable cost. Chasing Greatness provides an interpretive explanation of the tacit rules that shape Russia's great power identity today. Anatoly Reshetnikov argues that this never-ending chase for greatness is a result of how Russia and its predecessors - including the USSR, Russian Empire, Muscovy, and Kievan Rus' - historically interacted with its neighbors to the east, the south, and particularly the west. By analyzing an extensive amount of original source material, including primary sources that have not been previously translated into English, he is able to reconstruct a millennial history of the Russian concepts that express political greatness. He also traces numerous encounters between Russia and the West, as well as Russia's troubled integration into the European society of states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to show how these concepts have affected Russia's interaction with international society. Despite its substantive historical depth, Chasing Greatness is not a book of history. Rather, it is a synthesizing social science work inspired by the continental tradition of the critical history of modernity. As such, the book is more about the present than about the past. Its main aim is to expose and explain the rich conceptual baggage behind Russia’s unceasing great power rhetoric (domestic and international) and how this rhetoric drives the current international crises involving Russia.PPN: PPN: 1885789815Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB

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