Chasing Greatness: On Russia's Discursive Interaction With the West over the Past Millennium - Couverture souple

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Reshetnikov, Anatoly

 
9780472056699: Chasing Greatness: On Russia's Discursive Interaction With the West over the Past Millennium
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ISBN 10 : 0472056697 ISBN 13 : 9780472056699
Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2024

Synopsis

How a millennia idealizing political greatness has affected Russia Over 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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Anatoly Reshetnikov is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Webster University.

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Éditeur
The University of Michigan Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0472056697
ISBN 13 
9780472056699
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
286
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ISBN 10 :  0472076698 ISBN 13 :  9780472076697
Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2024
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