Moscow's Evolution as a Political Space

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Mara Morini

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3. Moscow as a Space of the Political in Russian History: The Moscow and Petersburg Epochs

   • Marina Glaser, Ivan Krivushin

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4. Moscow as a Space of the Political in the Soviet Era

   • Marina Glaser, Ivan Krivushin

   Pages 29-47

5. Luzhkov’s Moscow: Antagonism—Agonism—Platonism

   • Marina Glaser, Ivan Krivushin

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6. Sobyanin’s Moscow in 2011–2018: Antagonism—Platonism—Agonism

   • Marina Glaser, Ivan Krivushin

   Pages 89-129

7. Conclusion: The Nature of the Moscow Political

   • Marina Glaser, Ivan Krivushin

   Pages 131-146

8. Back Matter

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The book aims to trace and explain the historical evolution of Moscow, the capital of the Tsardom of Russia, Soviet Union and Russian Federation, as a political entity and political community, and to understand what place Moscow occupied within the Russian political space and what role it played in Russian political life for centuries until 2018. The authors consistently examine the dramatic political history of the contemporary Russian capital in the Moscow (13th – 17th centuries) and St. Petersburg (18th – 19th centuries) epochs, in the Soviet period, in the post-Soviet era, and identify its key points and the most pivotal events.

• political development of Moscow
• post-soviet politics
• Russian politics
• cultural analysis of power in the city
• Russian history
• political space
• urban development
• comparative study of world cities

“This long-awaited work of two well-known Russian academics will be important both among scholars in Russia and abroad. At the same time, there is every reason to believe that it will also arouse great interest among the general public, including foreigners, as they become acquainted with the real Russia. Altogether, this will give the foreign and, above all, Western audiences a new impetus to gaining a serious and balanced understanding of the history and the current politics in Russia.” (Marina L. Ivleva, RUDN, Journal of Russian History, Vol. 20 (4), 2021)

• Department of International Relations, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

  Marina Glaser, Ivan Krivushin

Marina Glaser (Kukartseva) is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of International Relations at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and Professor of Philosophy at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow, Russia.

Ivan Krivushin is Professor of Modern History in the Department of International Relations at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, and Leading Researcher in the Institute of World History at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Mara Morini is Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics and Political Science at the University of Genoa, Italy.

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