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Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

By Marlene Laruelle

Book information

Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
080189073X, 9780801890734
LCC
DK510.763 .L37613 2008
Open Library ID
OL16678820M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27167021 bytes)
Pages
144\144
Topic
Geography Russia
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has been marginalized at the edge of a Western-dominated political and economic system. In recent years, however, leading Russian figures, including former president Vladimir Putin, have begun to stress a geopolitics that puts Russia at the center of a number of axes: European-Asian, Christian-Muslim-Buddhist, Mediterranean-Indian, Slavic-Turkic, and so on. This volume examines the political presuppositions and expanding intellectual impact of Eurasianism, a movement promoting an ideology of Russian-Asian greatness, which has begun to take hold throughout Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. Eurasianism purports to tell Russians what is unalterably important about them and why it can only be expressed in an empire. Using a wide range of sources, Marl?ne Laruelle discusses the impact of the ideology of Eurasianism on geopolitics, interior policy, foreign policy, and culturalist philosophy. (2009)

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