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Author: Peter J. S. Duncan Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134744765 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 476
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This is the first book in English for half a century to examine the complexities of Russian messianism, both as a whole and in its interaction with Communism. Peter Duncan considers its Orthodox roots and focuses on Russia's geopolitical experience and situation to explain the endurance of this phenomenon.
Author: Peter J. S. Duncan Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134744773 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 261
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This unique work will be of great interest to those engaged in politics and Russian studies, as well as professionals dealing with Russia.
Author: Kerstin Rebecca Bouveng Publisher: ISBN: Category : National characteristics, Russian Languages : en Pages :
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Russian messianism? the longstanding idea of Russia as a?chosen? nation with a historical mission is typically represented as a clich? with little or no relevance in politics. However, an increasing deployment of several interrelated messianic ideas and notions has been noted in both public and official Post-Soviet discourse, raising the question of how we should understand its persistence and contemporary revival. We first develop a conceptual framework based on insights about identity and statecraft from poststructuralist and related approaches, then proceed to trace key characteristics and narratives of Russian messianism in history and the secondary literature of various disciplines. The study proposes that Russian messianism should be conceptualised as a persistent discursive framework, holding a kaleidoscopic range of both complementing and contesting discourses, that have the purposes of legitimising the existence and policies of Russia as a state and defining Russian identity in ambiguous relation to a broad Western Other. This conceptualisation is then applied to contemporary Russian discourse. By analysing samples of key official discourse (2000-2007) the thesis shows how the Russian state adopts, negotiates and reproduces certain messianic narratives from public discourse, in which they abound. We then compare the convergence and divergence of the official and public political discourse with popular discourse, based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews with 160 semi-elite and ordinary Russians, conducted in 2005. We find that the Russian messianic framework is widely used at all levels of discourse and among all categories of Russian people, but in ways and contexts different from in public and official discourse. Overall, this thesis makes contributions to Russian studies by providing a theoretical conceptualisation of Russian messianism; and to the study of international relations by an analysis of discourses central to the production of Russia as a collective identity, state and international actor.
Author: Alicja Curanovic Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780367653248 Category : Legitimacy of governments Languages : en Pages : 236
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This book explores how far messianism, the conviction that Russia has a special historical destiny, is present in, and affects, Russian foreign policy. Based on extensive original research, including analysis of public statements, policy documents and opinion polls, the book argues that a sense of mission is present in Russian foreign policy, that it is very similar in its nature to thinking about Russia's mission in Tsarist times, that the sense of mission matters more for Russia's elites than for Russia's masses, and that Russia's special mission is emphasised more when there are questions about the regime's legitimacy as well as great power status. Overall, the book demonstrates that a sense of mission is an important factor in Russian foreign policy.
Author: Nikolai Berdyaev Publisher: SteinerBooks ISBN: 1584204923 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 412
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It is between the ages of nine and ten that children begin to experience themselves as "I" for the first time--as separate individuals, different from their parents and peers and essentially alone. This inner experience is sometimes precipitated by the child's first encounter with death and the first notion that earthly life is fragile and temporary. In this insightful book, Koepke offers the reader a lucid, accessible description of the outer signs and symptoms of this significant turning point in every child's life.
Author: Peter J. S. Duncan
Author: Peter J. S. Duncan
Author: Kerstin Rebecca Bouveng
Author: Peter John Stuart Duncan
Author: Alicja Curanovic
Author: Cornelius Krahn
Author: Nikolai Berdyaev
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