Chasing Greatness: On Russia's Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium
Year: 2023
Type: book
Abstract: Together with Dunn and Neumann (2016, 2), I define discourses as "the systems of meaning-production that fix meaning, however temporarily, and enable us to make sense of the world and to act within it."18.Both languages and cultures are always asymmetrical in cross-comparison and translation.Certain cultural phenomena either have no direct equivalents in other cultures, or may be developed to varying degrees.The same holds for concepts and their semantic baggage (Tymoczko 2014, 211).19.In this book, I use the word "Russia" both in its conventional meaning (to refer to the Russian Federation that appeared in 1991) and, sometimes, anachronistically (to refer to the Russian Federation's predecessor polities, such as the Kievan Rus', early modern Muscovy, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union).simply postponed its crushing defeat until later, as its inadequate military performance in Ukraine in 2022 may suggest.Still, perhaps, instead of settling on an explanation that grants European modernity the status of an allpervasive and undefeatable force (i.e., the only meaningful variable), it makes sense to look at Russia itself and try to identify the configuration of ideas and process that affected its own political development and the dynamics of its encounter with the West.27.Kundnani 2011.28.Yasutomo
Author: Anatoly Reshetnikov
Language: English
Topic: Soviet and Russian History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4385534741