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Title: |
The New Third Rome |
| Sub-title: |
The Russian Orthodox Church and Web 2.0 |
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| By (author): |
Jardar à stbø Series edited by: Andreas Umland Foreword by: Pål Kolstø |
| ISBN10-13: |
3838208706 : 9783838208701 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
210x148mm |
| Pages: |
292 |
| Weight: |
.405 Kg. |
| Published: |
ibidem - May 2016 |
| List Price: |
24.90 Pounds Sterling |
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Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Society & culture: general |
| This in-depth analysis discloses the sources, contents, and implications of post-Soviet Russian messianism. Since its rediscovery 150 years ago, writers ranging from Western critics of Moscowâ s foreign policy to ardent Russian imperialists have used the concept of Moscow as the Third Rome as â evidenceâ of Russiaâ s particularism and expansionism. But for the original author of the formula of the Third Rome, the Orthodox monk Filofei of Pskov, it was a religious concept he referred to when criticizing what he saw as the apostasy of his time. This book is the first to look beyond this dichotomy. Drawing on theories of political myth and concepts of nationalism, Ă stbø develops a novel analytical perspective. Rather than dismissing political uses of the religious, medieval idea as â wrongâ , the author analyzes the modern content and ideological function of the myth of the Third Rome. Through case studies of four prominent nationalist intellectuals, Vadim Tsymburskii, Aleksandr Dugin, Nataliia Narochnitskaia and Egor Kholmogorov, the author shows how this messianic myth is used to â reinventâ Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These writers use their own constructed image of the Russian nation to demonstrate what Russia â should beâ and its allegedly rightful place in the world. Existing in radically diverging versions, the myth of the Third Rome routinely conveys rabid anti-Westernism. At â bestâ , it is employed to forge a self-image of the Russians as an essentially isolationist civilization. At worst, it is used to â explainâ how the Russians are divinely elected to be the rulers of a world empire. |
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"IN THIS ILLUMINATING DISCUSSION OF THE MYTH OF THE THIRD ROME, Jardar Řstbř argues that, in the post-Soviet context, the myth—which derives from the writings of the Pskov monk Filofei to Tsar Vasilii III in the sixteenth century (‘Two Romes have fallen, a third stands, a fourth there shall not be’)—exists in ‘multiple, highly diverging versions’ (p. 223) and is a ‘part of the “(re)invention” of the Russian nation by Russian nationalist intellectuals’ (pp. 20–1). However, Řstbř’s review of interpretations of the myth in the writings of four prominent Russian nationalists—Aleksandr Dugin, Egor Kholmogorov, Nataliya Narochnitskaya and Vadim Tsymburskii—indicates their views may be neither as divergent, nor as influential in terms of ‘inventing the nation’, as he claims." Simon Cosgrove (2018) The New Third Rome. Readings of a Russian Nationalist Myth, Europe-Asia Studies, 70:2, 297-298, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2018.1430212
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