[Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 151] • Jardar Østbø by Readings of a Russian Nationalist -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Table of Contents Acknowledgments On Transliteration, Translations, References and Sources Author’s preface Foreword 1. Introduction

Research Aims Myths and the Invention of Nations Research on the Third Rome Theorizing the Modern Uses of a Medieval Idea Case Studies: Selection, Sources and Method Structure of the Book

2. Russian Nationalism

Russian National Identity – Crisis and Reinvention Defining ‘Nation’ Defining ‘Nationalism’ Clarifying ‘Invention’ Russia – Different Nation, Different Nationalism

Imperialism versus Nationalism? Statist versus Culturalist Nationalism?

(Political) Orthodoxy and Russian Nationalism A Tentative Typology of Russian Nationalism

3. Myths of a Myth?

What is Political Myth? Definitions

Political Myth as Carrier of Ideology Political Myth as a Story about a Political Society The Enlightenment Ideal: Political Myth as Regress Political Myth as Incitement to Action Functionalism: Political Myth in the Construction of Societies Bottici: Political Myth as Process

The Narrative of the Third Rome as Political Myth Scholarship versus Myth-Making Mythopoeic or ‘Demythologizing’: Generalist Scholarship

Vladimir Solov’ev –Reconciling East and West Fedorov and Russia’s Universal Mission Émigrés Pro & Contra Florovskii: from Apocalyptic Minor to Chiliastic Major Berdiaev’s Game of Words Toynbee and his Critics Ul’ianov: Religion, not Imperialism; Nation, not Empire Pipes and Narochnitskaia

Back to the Sources?

Epistle to Misiur’-Munekhin Epistle to Grand Prince of Muscovy Vasilii Ivanovich On the Church’s Calamities ‘Purism’ – a Solution?

Escaping the ‘Purist’ Paradigm

4. Vadim Tsymburskii – Island Third Rome

The Rise of a Civilization Island Russia – Island Third Rome Prime Symbol Third Rome – Third International – Kitezh Hermeneutics of the Apocalypse: the Fourth Rome After the Apocalypse: the Russian Counter-Reformation Conclusions

5. Aleksandr Dugin – To Kill for the Third Rome

Rome and Carthage The Russian Eurasian Empire Sacral Geography: Dugin the ‘Jungian’ Analyst The Wheel of the Third Rome: the Sole Modus Vivendi Dugin’s Symphony of Geopolitics and ‘Theology’ Moscow as Katechon Messianism The Catastrophic Schism Peter I Seals the Fate of the Third Rome – Temporarily The Transcendental Third Rome The Bolshevik Restoration of the Third Rome The Ethics of the Third Rome – Thou Shalt Kill The Future of the Third Rome Conclusions

6. Nataliia Narochnitskaia – Inverting the Myth

Narochnitskaia’s Weltanschauung A Moral View of History The Idea of Rome and its Perversion in the West Orthodoxy: True Third Rome Heresy: False Third Rome The Geopolitical Dimension: the ‘Eastern Question’ The Use of the Third Rome: Western Temptations Ahistorical Historiography Conclusions: Inversion of the Third Rome Myth

7. Egor Kholmogorov – Bridgehead in Heaven

Centripetal Russia The Third Rome: the Only Empire Proactive Conservatism: Bonesetting Russia Restoring Russia’s Future by Sensocratic Means Russification of a Geopolitical Myth Autogenous Autocracy – Autogenous Third Rome? Total Mobilization Nuclear Bombs and Russian Saints A Bridgehead in Heaven Conclusions

8. Conclusions

The Uses of the Political Myth of the Third Rome

Defining who is Russian Defining the Boundaries of the Russian State as They ‘Should’ Be Foundation Myth Continuity: Past – Present – Future – End of Time Moral Prerogative The Importance of Orthodoxy Russian ‘Uniqueness’ A ‘Military Mission’?

The Status of the Political Myth of the Third Rome

Epilogue: Entering the Mainstream

Views on the Ukrainian Crisis The Myth of the Third Rome and the Ukrainian Crisis Conclusions

Bibliography Notes Series Copyright