Suchergebnisse

Gehört Russland zu Europa? Der Geograph hat die Antwort am ehesten zur Hand.Georg von RauchWe should remember that a geographical region is in the last resort an abstraction with a history which can sometimes tell us much about the past.Denys HayRussia's position between Europe and Asia is once again a timely subject. On the most official level, it figures regularly in Mikhail Gorbachev's pronouncements on foreign policy: somberly invoked either in western capitals in order to press his vision of a "common European home" from the Atlantic to the Urals or in the Far East to affirm the Soviet Union's natural identity as an Asian country. At the same time, dissident intellectual circles in the Soviet Union have been expostulating upon the Europe-Russia-Asia juxtaposition for some years and frequently enough arrive at conclusions very different from those of the general secretary.

Russian digital lifestyle media and the construction of global selves / Saara Ratilainen -- Crossing borders/road movies in Russia : the road to nowhere? : destinations in recent Russian cinema / Brigit Beumers -- Digital storytelling on youtube : the geo-political factor in Russian vernacular regional identities / Galina Zvereva -- Uses of Eurasia : the Kremlin, the Eurasian Union, and the Izborsky Club / Andrei Tsygankov -- Digital geopolitics encapsulated : Geidar Dzhemal between Islamism, occult fascism and Eurasianism / Marlène Laruelle -- Russia as an alternative model : geopolitical representations and Russia's public diplomacy : the case of Rossotrudnichestvo / Sirke Mäkinen -- Putin's third term and Russia as a great power / Hanna Smith -- Future empire : state-sponsored Eurasian identity promotion among Russian youth / Fabian Linde -- Russian geopolitical discourse : on pseudomorphosis, phantom pains and simulacra / Per-Arne Bodin -- Digital conservatism : framing patriotism in the era of global journalism / Vlad Strukov -- Invisible battlefield in Belarusian media space fighting "Rsskiimir" from within? / Ryhor Nizhnikau -- Constructing the enemy-other in social media : Facebook as a particular "battlefield" during the Ukrainian crisis / Alla Marchenko and Sergiy Kurbatov -- The imagined geolinguistics of Ukraine / Dirk Uffelmann -- Digital Eurasia : post-Soviet geopolitics in the age of the new media : Euromaidan and the geopolitical struggle for influence on Ukraine via new media / Greg Simons -- The Russian world concept in online debate during the Ukrainian crisis / Mikhail Suslov

Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV, cinema, architecture and exhibitions have addressed these questions and also describes other cultural flashpoints, from attitudes to language to the use of passports. It discusses definitions of political and cultural nationalism, as well as the myths, institutions and practices that moulded and expressed national identity. From post-Soviet recollections of food shortages to the attempts by officials to control popular religion, it analyses a variety of unexpected and compelling topics to offer fresh insights about this key area of world culture. Illustrated with numerous photographs, it presents the results of recent research in an accessible and lively way.

ABSTRACT
This essay examines the Etnogenez series of science fiction and fantasy novels. Launched in 2009 by the media producer, "political technologist," and Kremlin insider Konstantin Rykov, Etnogenez has enjoyed truly phenomenal success, developing into one of the most ambitious publishing projects of the post-Soviet period. At present it numbers more than fifty works, which circulate in millions of copies and additionally are broadly disseminated on the Internet and as e-books, audiobooks, and podcasts. There are Etnogenez fan clubs, computer games, and dozens of Internet discussion groups. Although the novels in the series differ widely in their plots and subjects, and are written in a variety of different science fiction genres, all of them are loosely inspired by the work of the historian and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev, in particular his theories of ethnogenesis (from which the project takes its name), passionarnost', and Eurasianism. The essay explores the powerful resonances between the Etnogenez project, the Gumilevian legacy, and the leading political and social narratives of Putin's Russia.

Defining the "true" nationalism : Russian ethnic nationalists vs. Eurasianists / Igor Torbakov -- "What is more important : blood or soil? : rasologiia contra Eurasianism / Mark Bassin -- Geopolitical imagination and popular geopolitics : between the Eurasian Union and Russkii Mir / Irina Kotkina -- The Eurasian symphony : geopolitics and utopia in post-Soviet alternative history / Mikhail Suslov -- Genghis Khan, the golden horde and neo-Eurasianism in Russian feature films / Christine Enge -- Empires of the mind : Eurasianism and alternative history in post-Soviet Russia / Konstantin Sheiko and Stephen Brown -- When Eurasia looks East : is Eurasianism Sinophile or Sinophobe? / Marlene Laruelle -- Eurasianism in Russian foreign policy : the case of the Eurasian Economic Union / Gonzalo Pozo -- Aleksander Dugin's neo-Eurasianism and the Russian-Ukrainian war / Anton Shekhovtsov -- The Age of Eurasia / Richard Sakwa -- Useful Eurasianism, or, How the Eurasian idea is viewed from Tatarstan / Viktor Shnirelman -- Strange bedfellows : Turanism, Eurasianism and the Hungarian radical right / Balazs Trencsenyi -- Geopolitical traditions in Turkey : Turkish Eurasianism / Emer Er?en -- Kazakhstani neo-Eurasianism and Nazarbayev's anti-imperial foreign policy / Luca Anceschi -- "The German in the Kremlin" : the rise and fall of German Eurasianism / Ian Klinke

In The Gumilev Mystique, Mark Bassin investigates the complex structure of Lev Gumilev's theories, revealing how they reflected and helped shape a variety of academic as well as political and social discourses in the USSR, and he traces how his authority has grown yet greater across the former Soviet Union.

Intro -- Foreword -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Studying Russian geopolitical imagination -- Renaissance of geopolitics -- Conspiracy, dialogue and political participation -- Part I Geopolitical Culture: Approaches to Understanding -- 1 The Logic of Recognition, Confrontation and Exceptionalism in Russian Geopolitical Culture -- Russia's "perpetual geopolitics" -- Struggle for recognition and Russian geopolitical imagination -- "Large space" and isolationism -- The stigma of barbarism -- Conclusions -- 2 Creating Usable Spaces in Education: Textbooks on Geopolitics -- Introduction -- Geopolitics Redux: Studying, Teaching, Selling -- Geopolitics: Ideology or pragmatism? -- "Laws of geopolitics" -- Securitization in textbooks -- Biopolitics and the rhetoric of "energy" -- Spatialization of history and the anti-colonial rhetoric -- Conclusions -- 3 "Civilizationism" in Russian Geopolitical Culture -- Introduction -- The mainstream political debates, "sovereign democracy" and the ideology of "Edinaia Rossiia" -- ROC and civilizational discourses -- The logic of fragility and security in civilizational discourses -- Conclusions -- 4 Geopolitical Imagination and Russian Imperial Science Fiction -- Introduction -- The Big Other of post-Soviet SF -- Geopolitics of civilizations -- The imperial sublime in Russian SF -- Biology and energy -- Engaging with Strugatsky brothers -- Orthodox SF -- Conclusions -- Part II Imaginary Places -- 5 "Holy Russia" -- Introduction -- "Holy Russia" project -- "Holy Russia" as a civilization -- Mapping Kirill's pastoral visits -- 6 Continent Eurasia in Russian Geopolitical Imagination -- Introduction -- Defining Eurasian continentalism -- "Naturalness" -- Hyperbole of development -- Hyperbole of autonomy -- Hyperbole of authenticity -- Conclusions.