LEADER 03202nam 2200493I 450 001 9910803601303321 005 20231114080233.0 010 $a9780472904389 010 $a0472904388 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.12333911 035 $a(CKB)30270976700041 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.12333911 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010490978 035 $a(EXLCZ)9930270976700041 100 $a20231114h20242024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aChasing greatness $eon Russia's discursive interaction with the West over the past millennium /$fAnatoly Reshetnikov 210 1$aAnn Arbor :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024 215 $a1 online resource (xiv,, 267 pages) 225 1 $aConfigurations: critical studies of world politics 300 $aTitle from eBook information screen.. 311 08$a9780472076697 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index. 330 3 $aOver the last two decades, it has become clear that Russia insists on its great power status, even at considerable cost. Chasing Greatness provides an interpretive explanation of the tacit rules that shape Russia's great power identity today. Anatoly Reshetnikov argues that this never-ending chase for greatness is a result of how Russia and its predecessors--including the USSR, Russian Empire, Muscovy, and Kievan Rus'--historically interacted with its neighbors to the east, the south, and particularly the west. By analyzing an extensive amount of original source material, including primary sources that have not been previously translated into English, he is able to reconstruct a millennial history of the Russian concepts that express political greatness. He also traces numerous encounters between Russia and the West, as well as Russia's troubled integration into the European society of states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to show how these concepts have affected Russia's interaction with international society. Despite its substantive historical depth, Chasing Greatness is not a book of history. Rather, it is a synthesizing social science work inspired by the continental tradition of the critical history of modernity. As such, the book is more about the present than about the past. Its main aim is to expose and explain the rich conceptual baggage behind Russia's unceasing great power rhetoric (domestic and international) and how this rhetoric drives the current international crises involving Russia. 410 0$aConfigurations (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xForeign relations 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xPolitics and government 607 $aRussia$xForeign relations 607 $aRussia$xPolitics and government 607 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government 686 $aPOL000000$aPOL011000$aPOL060000$2bisacsh 700 $aReshetnikov$b Anatoly$01775142 801 0$bEYM 801 1$bEYM 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910803601303321 996 $aChasing Greatness$94289535 997 $aUNINA