Overview
Provides a novel long-term approach to the role of Russia’s imperial legacies in its interactions with the former Soviet space
Develops ‘Hybrid Exceptionalism’ as a critical conceptual tool aimed at uncovering the great power’s self-positioning between ‘East’ and ‘West’
Concludes with an exploration of contemporary policy implications for the West, and the former Soviet states themselves
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About this book
This monograph provides a novel long-term approach to the role of Russia’s imperial legacies in its interactions with the former Soviet space. It develops ‘Hybrid Exceptionalism’ as a critical conceptual tool aimed at uncovering the great power’s self-positioning between ‘East’ and ‘West’, and its hierarchical claims over subalterns situated in both civilizational imaginaries. It explores how, in the Tsarist, Soviet, and contemporary eras, distinct civilizational spaces were created, and maintained, through narratives and practices emanating from Russia’s ambiguous relationship with Western modernity, and its part-identification with a subordinated ‘Orient’. The Romanov Empire’s struggles with ‘Russianness’, the USSR’s Marxism-Leninism, and contemporary Russia’s combination of feigned liberal and civilizational discourses are explored as the basis of a series of successive civilising missions, through an interdisciplinary engagement with official discourses, scholarship, and the arts. The book concludes with an exploration of contemporary policy implications for the West, and the former Soviet states themselves.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Kevork Oskanian is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has previously taught at the LSE and at the University of Westminster, and has published extensively on the politics of Eurasia. His current research interests also include post-liberal approaches to International Society and the state.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Russian Exceptionalism between East and West
Book Subtitle: The Ambiguous Empire
Authors: Kevork Oskanian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69713-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69712-9Published: 23 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69715-0Published: 24 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69713-6Published: 22 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 285
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Politics, Regionalism, Foreign Policy