CONTENTS

Title Page

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Dedication

 

Introduction

1. The End of the Soviet Era

Perestroika

After Gorbachev

2. Who Rules Russia?

The Oligarchs

The Siloviki

3. The Pillars of the New Russian Idea

The Russian Orthodox Church

Leading Thinkers of the Russian Right

Eurasianism

Russian Geopolitics

Confabulation?

4. Putin and Putinism

Putinism

5. Stalin and the Fall of the Byzantine Empire

The Fall of an Empire

6. Demography

Russian Islam

Tatarstan

Opposition

The State Party

7. The New National Doctrine

Back to the Roots

The Russian Party Under the Soviets

Ivan Ilyin Rediscovered

8. Foreign Policy and the Petrostate

Russia and the European Radical Right

Russia and China

The Near Abroad

Russian Oil

9. Sources of Future Conflicts

Russia’s Identity

The Idea of a New Empire

Russophobia and Zapadophobia (fear of the West)

The Economic Future

The Face of the Younger Generation

Central Asian Conflicts

Epilogue: Kamo Gryadeshi, Rossiya?—Quo Vadis, Russia?

 

Note

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Author

Also by Walter Laqueur

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