The New Third Rome : The Russian Orthodox Church and Web 2.0 / / Andreas Umland, Jardar Østbø, Pål Kolstø

• Autore: Østbø Jardar
• Pubblicazione: Hannover, : ibidem, 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.01
• Soggetto topico: history; politics; society; Russia; nationalism; imperialism; Soviet Union
• Persona (resp. second.): UmlandAndreas; KolstøPål
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- On Transliteration, Translations, References and Sources -- Author's preface -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- Research Aims -- Myths and the Invention of Nations -- Research on the Third Rome -- Theorizing the Modern Uses of a Medieval Idea -- Case Studies: Selection, Sources and Method -- Structure of the Book -- 2. Russian Nationalism -- Russian National Identity - Crisis and Reinvention -- Defining 'Nation' -- Defining 'Nationalism' -- Clarifying 'Invention' -- Russia - Different Nation, Different Nationalism -- (Political) Orthodoxy and Russian Nationalism -- A Tentative Typology of Russian Nationalism -- 3. Myths of a Myth? -- What is Political Myth? Definitions -- The Narrative of the Third Rome as Political Myth -- Scholarship versus Myth-Making -- Mythopoeic or 'Demythologizing': Generalist Scholarship -- Back to the Sources? -- Escaping the 'Purist' Paradigm -- 4. Vadim Tsymburskii - Island Third Rome -- The Rise of a Civilization -- Island Russia - Island Third Rome -- Prime Symbol -- Third Rome - Third International - Kitezh -- Hermeneutics of the Apocalypse: the Fourth Rome -- After the Apocalypse: the Russian Counter-Reformation -- Conclusions -- 5. Aleksandr Dugin - To Kill for the Third Rome -- Rome and Carthage -- The Russian Eurasian Empire -- Sacral Geography: Dugin the 'Jungian' Analyst -- The Wheel of the Third Rome: the Sole Modus Vivendi -- Dugin's Symphony of Geopolitics and 'Theology' -- Moscow as Katechon -- Messianism -- The Catastrophic Schism -- Peter I Seals the Fate of the Third Rome - Temporarily -- The Transcendental Third Rome -- The Bolshevik Restoration of the Third Rome -- The Ethics of the Third Rome - Thou Shalt Kill -- The Future of the Third Rome -- Conclusions -- 6. Nataliia Narochnitskaia - Inverting the Myth -- Narochnitskaia's Weltanschauung -- A Moral View of History -- The Idea of Rome and its Perversion in the West -- Orthodoxy: True Third Rome -- Heresy: False Third Rome -- The Geopolitical Dimension: the 'Eastern Question' -- The Use of the Third Rome: Western Temptations -- Ahistorical Historiography -- Conclusions: Inversion of the Third Rome Myth -- 7. Egor Kholmogorov - Bridgehead in Heaven -- Centripetal Russia -- The Third Rome: the Only Empire -- Proactive Conservatism: Bonesetting Russia -- Restoring Russia's Future by Sensocratic Means -- Russification of a Geopolitical Myth -- Autogenous Autocracy - Autogenous Third Rome? -- Total Mobilization -- Nuclear Bombs and Russian Saints -- A Bridgehead in Heaven -- Conclusions -- 8. Conclusions -- The Uses of the Political Myth of the Third Rome -- The Status of the Political Myth of the Third Rome -- Epilogue: Entering the Mainstream -- Views on the Ukrainian Crisis -- The Myth of the Third Rome and the Ukrainian Crisis -- Conclusions -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: This fascinating book analyzes the sources, contents, and implications of contemporary Russian messianism. The medieval idea of Moscow as the ‘Third Rome’ has been fascinating scholars and students of Russia for more than 150 years. Since its rediscovery, ideologists, writers, and politicians ranging from Western critics of Moscow’s foreign policy to ardent Russian imperialists have used the concept as ‘evidence’ of Russian particularism and expansionism. But for the author of the idea of the Third Rome, the Orthodox monk Filofei (Philotheus) of Pskov, it was a religious concept he referred to when criticizing what he saw as the apostasy of his time. Authors of Russian history textbooks often see it as a political, even imperialist idea, whereas specialist medievalists for decades have been arguing that it cannot be regarded as anything else than religious and other-worldly. This book is the first to look beyond this dichotomy between the ‘original religious idea’ of the Third Rome and its ‘use’ for political purposes. Drawing on theories of political myth and concepts of nationalism, Østbø develops a novel analytical perspective. Rather than dismissing political uses of the religious, medieval idea as ‘wrong’, the author analyzes the modern content and ideological function of the myth of the Third Rome. Through case studies of four prominent nationalist intellectuals, the author shows how this messianic myth is used to ‘reinvent’ Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These writers use their own constructed image of the Russian nation to demonstrate what Russia ‘should be’ and its allegedly rightful place in the world. Existing in radically diverging versions, the myth of the Third Rome routinely conveys particularism and rabid anti-Westernism. At ‘best’, the myth is used to forge a self-image of the Russians as an essentially isolationist civilization. At worst, it is used to ‘explain’ how the Russians, superior to all other nations, are divinely elected to be the rulers of a world empire.
• Titolo autorizzato: The new third Rome
• ISBN: 9783838268705; 3838268709
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910956187003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society). . 0271-4132