This volume is the first comprehensive study of the conservative turn in Russia under Putin. Its fifteen chapters, written by renowned specialists in the field, provide a focused examination of what Russian conservatism is and how it works. The book features in-depth discussions of the historical dimensions of conservatism, the contemporary international context, the theoretical conceptualization of conservatism, and empirical case studies. Among various issues covered by the volume are the geopolitical and religious dimensions of conservatism and the conservative perspective on Russian history and the politics of memory. The authors show that conservative ideology condenses and reworks a number of discussions about Russias identity and its place in the world.
Contributors include: Katharina Bluhm, Per-Arne Bodin, Alicja Curanovi, Ekaterina Grishaeva, Caroline Hill, Irina Karlsohn, Marlene Laruelle, Mikhail N. Lukianov, Kåre Johan Mjør, Alexander Pavlov, Susanna Rabow-Edling, Andrey Shishkov, Victor Shnirelman, Mikhail Suslov, and Dmitry Uzlaner
Arvustused
"a unique and welcome contribution to studies on conservatism [ ...] a sophisticated and multifaceted manuscript."
Elizaveta Gaufman, University of Groningen, in Europe-Asia Studies 73.2, pp. 413-415 (DOI:10.1080/09668136.2021.1880780)
"This book offers an exciting panorama of Russian conservative thought from the late Soviet era to the present. Contemporary Russian Conservatism sheds important light on influential intellectual currents in todays Russia. It should be read by scholars, students, and anyone interested in understanding Russian political, social, and cultural thought."
Jonathan Daly, University of Illinois at Chicago, in The Russian Review, 79.4, pp 681-682
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1Dilemmas and Paradoxes of Contemporary Russian Conservatism: Introduction
Mikhail Suslov and Dmitry Uzlaner
2A History of Russian Conservatism, from the 18th Century to the End of the
20th Century
Mikhail Loukianov, Kåre Johan Mjør, Susanna Rabow-Edling, and Mikhail
Suslov
Part 2: Conceptualizing Conservatism
3Russian Conservatism as an Ideology: The Logic of Isolationism
Mikhail Suslov
4The Logic of Scapegoating in Contemporary Russian Moral Conservatism
Dmitry Uzlaner
5Postmodernity and Modernity as Political Terms in Russias New
Conservatism
Katharina Bluhm
Part 3: Russian Conservative Tradition in the Post-Soviet and International
Context
6The Great Expectations of Russian Young Conservatism
Alexander Pavlov
7Mirror Games? Ideological Resonances between Russian and US Radical
Conservatism
Marlene Laruelle
Part 4: The Geopolitical Dimension
8Russias Contemporary Exceptionalism and Geopolitical Conservatism
Alicja Curanovi
9Making Europe Great Again: Anti-Western Criticism from Orthodox
Conservative Actors Online
Ekaterina Grishaeva
10From Expansion to Seclusion and Back Again: Boris Mezhuevs Isolationism
and Its Roots in Solzhenitsyn and Tsymbursky
Irina Karlsohn
Part 5: History and Memory Narratives in Russian Conservatism
11Russias Thousand-Year History: Claiming a Past in Contemporary Russian
Conservative Thought
Kåre Johan Mjør
12The Monument to Grand Prince Vladimir in Moscow and the Problem of
Conservatism
Per-Arne Bodin
Part 6: Religion and Traditional Values
13Eastern Orthodoxy, Conservatism, and (Neo)Palamite Tradition in
Post-Soviet Russia
Andrey Shishkov
14Russian Neoconservatism and Apocalyptic Imperialism
Victor Shnirelman
15Framing Gay Propaganda: Morality Policy Arguments and the Russian
Orthodox Church
Caroline Hill
Index
Mikhail Suslov, PhD (2009, European University Institute), is Assistant Professor of Russian History and Politics at the Institute for Trans-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He has published and edited a variety of studies on Russian intellectual history, including The Russian World Concept: Spheres of Influence in the Post-Soviet Geopolitical Ideology (in: Geopolitics 23:2 [ 2018]).
Dmitry Uzlaner, Ph.D. (2009, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University), is a research fellow at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) and at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov v Rossii i za rubezhom, published by the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
