Chasing Greatness
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 f...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1339592025-07-17T10:00:34Z Chasing Greatness Reshetnikov, Anatoly Russia, great power, discourse analysis, Russia and the West, Historical International Relations, conceptual history, genealogy, Russia as a great power, Russian Empire, Soviet Union, USSR, Muscovy, Kievan Rus', Westernizers and Slavophiles, religion and politics, tsar and people, origins of political concepts, political greatness, diplomatic history, constructivism, critical history of modernity, discursive evolution, Putin's Russia, post-Soviet Russia, postcommunism, Configurations thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFC Far-left political ideologies and movements thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFC Far-left political ideologies and movements 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. 2024-02-06T04:05:41Z 2024-02-06T04:05:41Z 2024-02-05T13:20:49Z 2024 book OCN: 1409204255 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87515 9780472076697 9780472056699 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/133959 eng Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87515/1/9780472904389.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87515/1/9780472904389.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87515/1/9780472904389.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87515/1/9780472904389.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87515/1/9780472904389.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12333911 10.3998/mpub.12333911 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472076697 9780472056699 287 open access |
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