After Empire : Nationalist Imagination and Symbolic Politics in Russia and Eurasia in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century / / Igor Torbakov, Andreas Umland, Serhii Plokhy

• Autore: Torbakov Igor
• Pubblicazione: Hannover, : ibidem, 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 pages)
• Disciplina: 940.5
• Soggetto topico: Post-Soviet; Russia; Politics; Russland; Politik
• Persona (resp. second.): UmlandAndreas; PlokhySerhii
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Russia’s imperial polity over the last hundred years. While Russia’s historical process is by no means unique, two features of its historical development stand out. First, the country’s history is characterized by dramatic political discontinuity. In the past century, Russia changed its “historical skin” three times: following the disintegration of the Tsarist Empire accompanied by violent civil war, it was reconstituted as the communist USSR, whose breakup a quarter century ago led to the emergence of the present-day Russian Federation. Each of the dramatic transformations in the 20th century powerfully affected the notion of what “Russia” is and what it means to be Russian. Second, alongside Russia’s political instability, there is, paradoxically, a striking picture of geopolitical stability and of remarkable longevity as an imperial entity. At least since the beginning of the 18th century, “Russia” has been a permanent geopolitical fixture on Europe’s north-eastern margins with its persistent pretense to the status of a great power. Against this backdrop, the book’s three sections investigate (a) the emergence and development of Eurasianism as a form of (post-)imperial ideology, (b) the crucial role Ukraine has historically played for the Russians’ self-understanding, and (c) the contemporary Russian elites’ exercises in historical legitimation.
• Titolo autorizzato: After Empire
• ISBN: 9783838272177; 383827217X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972420403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; ; 191.