The New Third Rome

The New Third Rome
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Publisher : Ibidem Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 3838209001
ISBN-13 : 9783838209005
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The New Third Rome by : Jardar Østbø

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.

The New Third Rome

The New Third Rome
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9783838268705
ISBN-13 : 3838268709
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The New Third Rome by : Jardar Østbø

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.

Moscow, the Fourth Rome

Moscow, the Fourth Rome
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9780674062894
ISBN-13 : 0674062892
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Moscow, the Fourth Rome by : Katerina Clark

In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the "Third Rome." By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals, in seeking to capture the imagination of leftist and anti-fascist intellectuals throughout the world, sought to establish their capital as the cosmopolitan center of a post-Christian confederation and to rebuild it to become a beacon for the rest of the world. Clark provides an interpretative cultural history of the city during the crucial 1930s, the decade of the Great Purge. She draws on the work of intellectuals such as Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Tretiakov, Mikhail Koltsov, and Ilya Ehrenburg to shed light on the singular Zeitgeist of that most Stalinist of periods. In her account, the decade emerges as an important moment in the prehistory of key concepts in literary and cultural studies today-transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. By bringing to light neglected antecedents, she provides a new polemical and political context for understanding canonical works of writers such as Brecht, Benjamin, Lukacs, and Bakhtin. Moscow, the Fourth Rome breaches the intellectual iron curtain that has circumscribed cultural histories of Stalinist Russia, by broadening the framework to include considerable interaction with Western intellectuals and trends. Its integration of the understudied international dimension into the interpretation of Soviet culture remedies misunderstandings of the world-historical significance of Moscow under Stalin.

Russian Messianism

Russian Messianism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9781134744770
ISBN-13 : 1134744773
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Russian Messianism by : Peter J. S. Duncan

This unique work will be of great interest to those engaged in politics and Russian studies, as well as professionals dealing with Russia.

The Third Rome, 1922-43

The Third Rome, 1922-43
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9781137314031
ISBN-13 : 1137314036
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Third Rome, 1922-43 by : Aristotle Kallis

What kind of city was the Fascist 'third Rome'? Imagined and real, rooted in the past and announcing a new, 'revolutionary' future, Fascist Rome was imagined both as the ideal city and as the sacred centre of a universal political religion. Kallis explores this through a journey across the sites, monuments, and buildings of the fascist capital.

The Song of the Sirin

The Song of the Sirin
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Publisher : Waystone Press
Total Pages : 407
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ISBN-10 : 9780998847917
ISBN-13 : 0998847917
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Song of the Sirin by : Nicholas Kotar

An evil omen clouds the sky. A song of power returns. Can one man's quest save the world? Voran, a young warrior of Vasyllia, lives in a dying world. As blight ravages the countryside and darkness covers the sun, he can't avoid hearing the rumors of an ancient spirit that devours souls. He feels powerless to fight the oncoming devastation until a mythical creature entrusts him with a long-forgotten song. Legend has it that such a song can heal the masses, overthrow kingdoms, and raise humans to divine beings… Armed with the power of the song, Voran must hunt down the dark spirit before it achieves its goal of immortality. His quest takes him through doorways to other worlds and puts him on a collision course with seductive nymphs and riddling giants. With each step of the journey, the strength of the villainous spirit grows, as does Voran’s fear that the only way to save his world… is to let it be destroyed. The Song of the Sirin is an epic fantasy retelling of the Russian fairy tale Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf. If you like complex characters, creative twists on mythology, and cinematic world-building, then you’ll love Nicholas Kotar’s sweeping tale. Buy The Song of the Sirin to begin the journey today!

The Third Rome

The Third Rome
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89085229409
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis The Third Rome by : Matthew Raphael Johnson

Academic historians, liberals and communists have been fashioning a fantasy world around Russian history for nearly 100 years, spreading slander and myth about an entire population. Few nations, rulers or peoples have been subject to such merciless attacks as the Russians have. Now, however, all of that has changed. Here¿s the first book in English that sets out to defend the history of Tsarist Russia from St. Vladimir to Tsar St. Nicholas II¿Russia before bloody Bolshevism.

Imagined Empires

Imagined Empires
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Publisher : Central European University Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9633861772
ISBN-13 : 9789633861776
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Imagined Empires by : Dimitris Stamatopoulos

The Balkans offer classic examples of how empires imagine they can transform themselves into national states (Ottomanism) and how nation-states project themselves into future empires (as with the Greek "Great Idea" and the Serbian "Načertaniye"). By examining the interaction between these two aspirations this volume sheds light on the ideological prerequisites for the emergence of Balkan nationalisms. With a balance between historical and literary contributions, the focus is on the ideological hybridity of the new national identities and on the effects of "imperial nationalisms" on the emerging Balkan nationalisms. The authors of the twelve essays reveal the relation between empire and nation-state, proceeding from the observation that many of the new nation-states acquired some imperial features and behaved as empires. This original and stimulating approach reveals the imperialistic nature of so-called ethnic or cultural nationalism.

The Third Rome

The Third Rome
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Publisher : Westview Press
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015012988575
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Third Rome by : Mikhail Agursky

Byzantium

Byzantium
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 1898800448
ISBN-13 : 9781898800446
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Byzantium by : Cyril A. Mango