The New Third Rome: The Russian Orthodox Church and Web 2.0

In: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society v.151

Abstract

Intro -- 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 Nationalism -- 3. 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.