The New Third Rome: Readings of a Russian Nationalist Myth: The Russian Orthodox Church and Web 2.0: 151 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3838208706 ISBN 13: 9783838208701

Casa editrice: ibidem, 2016

Riassunto

This in-depth analysis discloses the sources, contents, and implications of post-Soviet Russian messianism. Since its rediscovery 150 years ago, writers ranging from Western critics of Moscow's foreign policy to ardent Russian imperialists have used the concept of Moscow as the Third Rome as 'evidence' of Russia's particularism and expansionism. But for the original author of the formula of the Third Rome, the Orthodox monk Filofei of Pskov, it was a religious concept he referred to when criticizing what he saw as the apostasy of his time.
This book is the first to look beyond this dichotomy. 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, Vadim Tsymburskii, Aleksandr Dugin, Nataliia Narochnitskaia and Egor Kholmogorov, 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 rabid anti-Westernism. At 'best', it is employed to forge a self-image of the Russians as an essentially isolationist civilization. At worst, it is used to 'explain' how the Russians are divinely elected to be the rulers of a world empire.

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Recensione

""This novel and welcome contribution to the study of the Russian Far Right is more important now than ever, given the regime's hijacking of the nationalist juggernaut following the annexation of Crimea, and the book is well suited to be included on reading lists of advanced studies of Russian nationalism [...]. Perhaps Østbø's greatest contribution in this work is to eschew essentialist readings of a myth and demonstrate that the same historical material can be interpreted in so many diverse ways that it becomes impossible to say the myth itself necessarily leads to any particular outcome or policy prescriptions."" Richard Arnold, Muskingum University, The Russian Review, 1/2017

L'autore

Dr. Jardar Østbø studied East European affairs, the history of ideas, and Slavic languages at the Universities of Oslo and Bergen. Østbø has worked as a political analyst in the Norwegian Army and a translator of Russian and Albanian literature. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow with the Norwegian Research Council project 'New Political Groups and the Russian State'. Østbø's papers have appeared in, among others, Nordisk Østforum, Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul'tury, Digital Icons, and The Borders of Europe (Aarhus UP 2012).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: ibidem
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3838208706
• ISBN 13: 9783838208701
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 292
• Redattore: Umland Andreas
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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