2012/09/01 by Михаил Суслов · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Eastern European Communism and Reforms #Soviet and Russian History #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics #Geopolitics #Slavic languages #Metanarrative #Hegemony #Ideology #Narrative #Empire #Ukrainian #Political science #Geography #History #Politics #Ancient history #Law #Classics #Literature
paper · doi:10.2747/1539-7216.53.5.575
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A specialist on Russian geopolitical metanarratives investigates the re-emergence of Pan-Slavism in the ideological landscape of contemporary Russia. Arguing that it is a heterogeneous assemblage of both mutually antagonistic and complementary narratives about the unity of Slavic peoples, the author posits that Pan-Slavism's durability lies not in its conceptual coherence but rather its emotional appeal to disparate Slavic peoples in the former Soviet Union as well as Eastern and Southeastern Europe. After briefly tracing the history of Pan-Slavism from its 17th-century roots through World War I into the Soviet period, he explores the metanarrative's capacity to take modern Russia's geopolitical thinking in new directions, including the potential to replace Russians' center-periphery worldview with a that of a cosmopolitan network of kindred nations affording Russia greater access to the European community.