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Author(s): Andrei P. Tsygankov

ISBN(s): 9781032455600, 9781032455594, 1032455608, 1032455594

Edition: 1

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Year: 2023

Language: English

SKU: EB-54869778 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - International Relations, Society Tags: Civilization, Distinctiveness, International Relations, National, National Distinctiveness

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The “Russian Idea” in International Relations
Civilization and National Distinctiveness

The “Russian Idea” in International Relations identifies different approaches within Russian Civilizational tradition — Russia’s nationally distinctive way of thinking — by situating them within IR literature and connecting them to practices of the country’s international relations. Civilizational ideas in IR theory express states’ cultural identification and stress religious traditions, social customs, and economic and political values. This book defines Russian civilizational ideas by two criteria: the values they stress and their global ambitions. The author identifies leading voices among those positioning Russia as an exceptional and globally significant system of values and traces their arguments across several centuries of the country’s development. In addition, the author explains how and why Russian civilizational ideas rise, fall, and are replaced by alternative ideas. The book identifies three schools of Russian civilizational thinking about international relations – Slavophiles, Communists, and Eurasianists. Each school focuses on Russia’s distinctive spiritual, social, and geographic roots, respectively. Each one is internally divided between those claiming Russia’s exceptionalism, potentially resulting in regional autarchy or imperial expansion, and those advocating the Russian Idea as global in its appeal. Those favoring the latter perspective have stressed Russia’s unique capacity for understanding different cultures and guarding the world against extremes of nationalism and hegemony in international relations. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Russian foreign policy, Russia–Western relations, IR theory, diplomatic studies, political science, and European history, including the history of ideas.

Table contents:

1 Introduction
The Russian Question in the World
Arguing the “Russian Idea” (RI)
Exceptionalism and Global Dialogue
Organization of the Book
Notes
Further Reading
References
2 Russian Civilizational Ideas
Civilizational Ideas in the Global World
Civilizational Idea: The Global and the Exceptional
Rise and Fall of Civilizational Ideas
Alternative Explanations
Explaining Russian Civilizational Ideas
Russia’s Civilizational Dilemma
Exceptionalism and Dialogue
Rise and Fall of Russian Ideas
Slavophiles, Communists, and Eurasianists
Slavophiles and the Spiritual
Communists and the Social
Eurasianists and the Spatial
Civilization and the Russian Idea Today
The Rise of Civilizational Thinking
The Dominance of Exceptionalism
The Persistence of Dialogue
Conditions of Dialogical Thinking
Notes
Further Reading
References
3 Slavophiles
The Spiritual of the Russian Idea: Aleksei Khomyakov and Konstantin Aksakov
Aleksei Khomyakov: Reuniting with Europe
Konstantin Aksakov: Isolating from Europe
The Fortresses of Ivan Aksakov and Nikolai Danilevsky
Ivan Aksakov: The Assertive Defense of a Slavic Fortress
The Defensive Fortress of Nikolai Danilevsky
The European Bridge of Vladimir Solovyev
Bridging the Two Europes into the True Third Rome
Critique of Russian Nationalism
Solovyev’s Renaissance and Nikolai Berdyaev
The Anti-Soviet Fortresses of Ivan Ilyin and Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The anti-Soviet Fortress of Ivan Ilyin
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Authoritarian State and Slavic Isolationism
Bridges and Fortresses after the USSR: Alexander Panarin
From Westernism to the Russia-Bridge idea
Forging the Eastern Orthodox Fortress
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
References
4 Communists
The Social Fortresses of the Russian Idea: Aleksander Herzen, Populists, and Anarchists
Aleksander Herzen and Communal Socialism
The Organic Socialism of Nikolai Mikhailovsky
Revolutionary and Moral Equality in Russian Anarchism
Bolsheviks between Fortress and Expansion
Vladimir Lenin, Lev Trotsky, and the Revolutionary Liberation from Global Capitalism
The Socialist Fortress of Josef Stalin
Bridges of the Late Soviet Period
The Social Reformism of Vladimir Zagladin
The Global Dialogue of Mikhail Gorbachev
Communists after the Soviet System
New Fortresses: Shielding Russia from Global Capitalism
Creative Learning from and Bridges to Globalization
Transforming global Capitalism
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
References
5 Eurasianists
Eurasia in World History
Precursors of Fortress Eurasia
The Pan-Slavist Break with Europe
The Neo-Byzantium of Konstantin Leontyev
Classical Eurasianism between the Fortress and the Expansion
The Conservative Eurasianism of Nikolai Trubetskoi
The Revolutionary Expansion of Pyotr Suvchinsky
The Anti-Soviet Fortress of Lev Gumilev
Russia as a Distinctive Super-Ethnic Group
The Cyclical Theory of Ethnogenesis
The Reemergence of Eurasianism
The Rise of Fortress Thinking and Interest in Danilevsky
The Neo-Eurasianist Expansion of Alexander Dugin
The Idea of the Eurasia Bridge
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
References
6 The “Russian Idea” for Russia and the World
Faces of the Russian Idea
The Fortress
The Expansion
The Bridge
The “Russian Idea” and the War in Ukraine
Revived Western Fears of Russia
Exceptionalism and Dialogue inside Russia
The “Russian Idea” and Global Dialogue after the War
Conditions and Demand for Dialogue
Three Bridges to the Future
Notes
Further Reading
References
Index