Mikhail Suslov

Geopolitical Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ibidem
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783838273617
• Artikelnr.: 60592023

Autorenporträt

Dr. Mikhail Suslov holds a PhD in history from the European University Institute (Florence). Now he is a Marie Curie fellow at Uppsala University¿s Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Uppsala University. His academic interests include Russian intellectual history, geopolitical ideologies and utopias, religious (Orthodox) political theorization. His most recent publications are: Suslov (2014). "Holy Rus": The Geopolitical Imagination in the Contemporary Russian Orthodox Church. Russian Politics & Law, 52(3); Suslov (2014). ¿Crimea Is Ours!¿ Russian popular geopolitics in the new media age. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 55(6). The author of the foreword: Fr. Cyril Hovorun is a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate); currently a senior lecturer at Stockholm School of Theology / Sankt Ignatios Academy in Sweden and a researcher at Columbia University.

Rezensionen

"Mikhail Suslov's book is a must-read for all those curious to capture the complexity of the notion of 'conservatism' in today's Russia. Delving into past conservative doctrines and the diversity of actors branding conservatism today, the book allows us to move away from a simplistic, Kremlin-centric vision and to get a comprehensive interpretation of the broader phenomenon."-Marlene Laruelle, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University