Title The new third Rome : readings of a Russian nationalist myth / Jardar Østbø ; with a foreword by Pål Kolstø

Published Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; 151 Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; 151. Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; On Transliteration, Translations, References and Sources; Author's preface; Foreword; 1. Introduction; Research Aims; Myths and the Invention of Nations; Research on the Third Rome; Theorizing the Modern Uses of a Medieval Idea; Case Studies: Selection, Sources and Method; Structure of the Book; 2. Russian Nationalism; Russian National Identity -- Crisis and Reinvention; Defining 'Nation'; Defining 'Nationalism'; Clarifying 'Invention'; Russia -- Different Nation, Different Nationalism; (Political) Orthodoxy and Russian Nationalism A Tentative Typology of Russian Nationalism3. Myths of a Myth?; What is Political Myth? Definitions; The Narrative of the Third Rome as Political Myth; Scholarship versus Myth-Making; Mythopoeic or 'Demythologizing': Generalist Scholarship; Back to the Sources?; Escaping the 'Purist' Paradigm; 4. Vadim Tsymburskii -- Island Third Rome; The Rise of a Civilization; Island Russia -- Island Third Rome; Prime Symbol; Third Rome -- Third International -- Kitezh; Hermeneutics of the Apocalypse: the Fourth Rome; After the Apocalypse: the Russian Counter-Reformation; Conclusions 5. Aleksandr Dugin -- To Kill for the Third Rome; Rome and Carthage; The Russian Eurasian Empire; Sacral Geography: Dugin the 'Jungian' Analyst; The Wheel of the Third Rome: the Sole Modus Vivendi; Dugin's Symphony of Geopolitics and 'Theology'; Moscow as Katechon; Messianism; The Catastrophic Schism; Peter I Seals the Fate of the Third Rome -- Temporarily; The Transcendental Third Rome; The Bolshevik Restoration of the Third Rome; The Ethics of the Third Rome -- Thou Shalt Kill; The Future of the Third Rome; Conclusions; 6. Nataliia Narochnitskaia -- Inverting the Myth Narochnitskaia's Weltanschauung; A Moral View of History; The Idea of Rome and its Perversion in the West; Orthodoxy: True Third Rome; Heresy: False Third Rome; The Geopolitical Dimension: the 'Eastern Question'; The Use of the Third Rome: Western Temptations; Ahistorical Historiography; Conclusions: Inversion of the Third Rome Myth; 7. Egor Kholmogorov -- Bridgehead in Heaven; Centripetal Russia; The Third Rome: the Only Empire; Proactive Conservatism: Bonesetting Russia; Restoring Russia's Future by Sensocratic Means; Russification of a Geopolitical Myth Autogenous Autocracy -- Autogenous Third Rome?Total Mobilization; Nuclear Bombs and Russian Saints; A Bridgehead in Heaven; Conclusions; 8. Conclusions; The Uses of the Political Myth of the Third Rome; The Status of the Political Myth of the Third Rome; Epilogue: Entering the Mainstream; Views on the Ukrainian Crisis; The Myth of the Third Rome and the Ukrainian Crisis; Conclusions; Bibliography Summary Drawing on theories of political myth and concepts of nationalism, Jardar Østbø analyzes the content and ideological function of the myth of Russia as a Third Rome. Through case studies of four prominent nationalist intellectuals, Østbø shows how this messianic myth was used to reinvent Russia and its allegedly rightful place in the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Though it exists in many radically different versions, the Third Rome myth in general embodies particularism and rabid anti-Westernism. At best, it portrays Russia as an essentially isolationist country. At worst, it casts the country as superior to all other nations, divinely elected to rule the world Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 21, 2016) Subject Nationalism -- Russia (Federation) Nationalism -- Russia (Federation) -- History HISTORY / Europe / Eastern HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union Nationalism Russia (Federation) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Kolstø, Pål, author of foreword. ISBN 9783838268705 3838268709

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