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Russia's postcolonial identity : a subaltern empire in a Eurocentric world

Title: Russia's postcolonial identity : a subaltern empire in a Eurocentric world / Viatcheslav Morozov, Professor of EU-Russia studies, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Author: Morozov, Viatcheslav
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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Description

viii, 209 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book applies postcolonial theory to Russia by looking at it as a subaltern empire. It pushes postcolonial studies and constructivist international relations towards an uneasy dialogue, which produces tensions and reveals multiple blind spots in both approaches. A critical re-evaluation of the existing literature enables the author to produce a comprehensive account of how Russia's position in the international system has conditioned its domestic development, and how this in turn generated specific foreign policy outcomes. Having internalised the Eurocentric worldview, Russia is nevertheless different from the core European countries. This difference is not determined by 'culture', but rather by uneven and combined development of global capitalism, in which Russia is integrated as a semi-peripheral nation. The Russian state has colonised its own periphery on behalf of the Western core, but has never been able to overcome economic and normative dependency on the West. The peculiar dialectic of the subaltern and the imperial during the post-Soviet period has given rise to a regime which claims to defend 'genuine Russian values', while in fact there is nothing behind this new traditionalism but the negation of Western hegemony. Trying to 'defend' the nation from the postulated threat of Western interventionism, the regime engages in a disavowal of politics and thus suppresses popular subjectivity. The only political subject that remains on the horizon of Russian politics is the West, while the Russian people, as any other subaltern, are being spoken for, and thus silenced, by the country's Eurocentric elites and the Western intellectuals"--

Series Statement

Central and Eastern European perspectives on international relations

Uniform Title

Central and Eastern European perspectives on international relations series.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The Postcolonial and the Imperial in the Space and Time of World Politics -- 2. Russia in/and Europe : Sources of Ambiguity -- 3. Material Dependency : Postcolonialism, Development and Russia's "Backwardness" -- 4. Normative Dependency : Putinite Paleoconservatism and the Missing Peasant -- 5. The People are Speechless : Russia, the West and the Voice of the Subaltern.

Call Number

JFD 15-2046

ISBN

9781137409294 (hardback)
1137409290 (hardback)

LCCN

2015001726
40024773899

OCLC

893451598

Author

Morozov, Viatcheslav, author.

Title

Russia's postcolonial identity : a subaltern empire in a Eurocentric world / Viatcheslav Morozov, Professor of EU-Russia studies, University of Tartu, Estonia.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Central and Eastern European perspectives on international relations

Central and Eastern European perspectives on international relations series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover image

Other Standard Identifier

40024773899

Research Call Number

JFD 15-2046

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