Chasing greatness on Russia's discursive interaction with the West over the past millennium
Over the last two decades, it has become clear that Russia insists on its great power status, even at considerable cost. Chasing Greatness provides an interpretive explanation of the tacit rules that shape Russia's great power identity today. Anatoly Reshetnikov argues that this never-ending ch...
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Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Press
2024©2024, 2024
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| Series: | Configurations: critical studies of world politics
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Translation and Transliteration Note
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Great Power vs. Velikaya Derzhava
- Chapter 2. Absolute Greatness: Origins and Early Evolution
- Chapter 3. Theatrical Greatness: From Majesty to Glory
- Chapter 4. Troubled Encounter: Back to Absolute?
- Chapter 5. Failed Synthesis: Modernization through Self-Revelation
- Chapter 6. A World Apart: The Rise and Fall of International Socialist Greatness
- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Uses, Legacies, and Traps of Greatness in Post-Soviet Russia
- Bibliography