Geopolitical Imagination : Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia / / Mikhail Suslov, Andreas Umland, Mark Bassin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911148407303321
• Autore: Suslov Mikhail
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hannover, : ibidem, 2020
• ISBN: 3-8382-7361-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society ; 215
• Disciplina: 320.947
• Soggetti: Politik; Geschichte; Russland; Konservatismus; Politics; History; Conservatism; Russia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Studying Russian geopolitical imagination -- Renaissance of geopolitics -- Conspiracy, dialogue and political participation -- Part I Geopolitical Culture: Approaches to Understanding -- 1 The Logic of Recognition, Confrontation and Exceptionalism in Russian Geopolitical Culture -- Russia's "perpetual geopolitics" -- Struggle for recognition and Russian geopolitical imagination -- "Large space" and isolationism -- The stigma of barbarism -- Conclusions -- 2 Creating Usable Spaces in Education: Textbooks on Geopolitics -- Introduction -- Geopolitics Redux: Studying, Teaching, Selling -- Geopolitics: Ideology or pragmatism? -- "Laws of geopolitics" -- Securitization in textbooks -- Biopolitics and the rhetoric of "energy" -- Spatialization of history and the anti-colonial rhetoric -- Conclusions -- 3 "Civilizationism" in Russian Geopolitical Culture -- Introduction -- The mainstream political debates, "sovereign democracy" and the ideology of "Edinaia Rossiia" -- ; ROC and civilizational discourses -- The logic of fragility and security in civilizational discourses -- Conclusions -- 4 Geopolitical Imagination and Russian Imperial Science Fiction -- Introduction -- The Big Other of post-Soviet SF -- Geopolitics of civilizations -- The imperial sublime in Russian SF -- Biology and energy -- Engaging with Strugatsky brothers -- Orthodox SF -- Conclusions -- Part II Imaginary Places -- 5 "Holy Russia" -- Introduction -- "Holy Russia" project -- "Holy Russia" as a civilization -- Mapping Kirill's pastoral visits -- 6 Continent Eurasia in Russian Geopolitical Imagination -- Introduction -- Defining Eurasian continentalism -- "Naturalness" -- Hyperbole of development -- Hyperbole of autonomy -- Hyperbole of authenticity -- Conclusions.; 7 Eurasian Symphony: Geopolitical Imagination and Alternative History -- Introduction -- Emplotment and enjoyment in alternative history -- Irony in Eurasian Symphony -- East and West in Eurasian Symphony -- Conclusions -- 8 "Novorossiia" in Russian Geopolitical Culture -- Introduction -- Methodological note: The brand "Novorossiia" and its ideological meaning -- Where is Novorossiia? Territorial indeterminacy -- Ideology of Novorossiia -- Novorossiia in online debates -- Conclusions -- Afterword: Amendments to the Constitution and Geopolitical Visions, 2020 -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This timely book surveys key themes and tendencies in the development of conservative ideology in Russia. Mikhail Suslov argues that Russia’s historical experience of Westernization and the geopolitical struggle for recognition led her conservatism towards critical reflection about Russia’s cultural authenticity and its place in the world. As a result, unlike canonical ‘Western’ versions of conservatism, the Russian one was not only a response to liberal and revolutionary ideas and practice, but also an opposition to the worldview of the ‘Westernizers’. In today’s Russia, Putinism is making cautious attempts to lean upon some forms of ideological legitimation associated with ‘traditional values’ discourses. In this context, the ruling party ‘United Russia’ proclaimed conservatism its ideology in 2009. The Russian version of conservatism substantiates the anti-Westernism of Russia’s official line, but as an ideology, its nature is too paradoxical to become a long-term ally of the regime. Suslov analyzes these paradoxes and dilemmas by the examples of late-imperial neo-Slavophilism, émigré conservatism, underground right-wing dissident movement, and post-Soviet conservative streaks of thought.

Christian society and the Crusades, 1198-1229 : sources in translation, including The capture of Damietta by Oliver of Paderborn / / translated with notes by John J. Gavigan. Edited, with an introd. by Edward Peters

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911147461903321
• Autore: Peters Edward <1936->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971
• ISBN: 9781283896542; 1283896540; 9780812207361; 081220736X; 9780585121062; 0585121060
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Collana: Sources of medieval history
• Disciplina: 940.18
• Soggetti: Crusades; Medieval ages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Portions were originally published in the University of Pennsylvania History Dept. series. Translations and reprints from the original sources of European history.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. The Fourth Crusade, 1202-1207 -- II. Crusade and Council, 1208-1215 -- III. The Fifth Crusade, 1217-1222 -- IV. The Emperor's Crusade, 1227-1229
• Sommario/riassunto: During the thirteenth century, the widespread conviction that the Christian lands in Syria and Palestine were of utmost importance to Christendom, and that their loss was a sure sign of God's displeasure with Christian society, pervaded nearly all levels of thought. Yet this same society faced other crises: religious dissent and unorthodox beliefs were proliferating in western Europe, and the powers exercised, or claimed, by the kings of Europe were growing rapidly.The sources presented here illustrate the rising criticism of the changing Crusade idea. They reflect a sharpened awareness among Europeans of themselves as a community of Christians and the slow beginnings of the secular culture and political organization of Europe.