Geopolitical Imagination : Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia.

Intro -- Foreword -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Studying Russian geopolitical imagination -- Renaissance of geopolitics -- Conspiracy, dialogue and political participation -- Part I Geopolitical Culture: Approaches to Understanding -- 1 The Logic of Recognition, Confrontation and Exceptionalism in Russian Geopolitical Culture -- Russia's "perpetual geopolitics" -- Struggle for recognition and Russian geopolitical imagination -- "Large space" and isolationism -- The stigma of barbarism -- Conclusions -- 2 Creating Usable Spaces in Education: Textbooks on Geopolitics -- Introduction -- Geopolitics Redux: Studying, Teaching, Selling -- Geopolitics: Ideology or pragmatism? -- "Laws of geopolitics" -- Securitization in textbooks -- Biopolitics and the rhetoric of "energy" -- Spatialization of history and the anti-colonial rhetoric -- Conclusions -- 3 "Civilizationism" in Russian Geopolitical Culture -- Introduction -- The mainstream political debates, "sovereign democracy" and the ideology of "Edinaia Rossiia" -- ROC and civilizational discourses -- The logic of fragility and security in civilizational discourses -- Conclusions -- 4 Geopolitical Imagination and Russian Imperial Science Fiction -- Introduction -- The Big Other of post-Soviet SF -- Geopolitics of civilizations -- The imperial sublime in Russian SF -- Biology and energy -- Engaging with Strugatsky brothers -- Orthodox SF -- Conclusions -- Part II Imaginary Places -- 5 "Holy Russia" -- Introduction -- "Holy Russia" project -- "Holy Russia" as a civilization -- Mapping Kirill's pastoral visits -- 6 Continent Eurasia in Russian Geopolitical Imagination -- Introduction -- Defining Eurasian continentalism -- "Naturalness" -- Hyperbole of development -- Hyperbole of autonomy -- Hyperbole of authenticity -- Conclusions.

7 Eurasian Symphony: Geopolitical Imagination and Alternative History -- Introduction -- Emplotment and enjoyment in alternative history -- Irony in Eurasian Symphony -- East and West in Eurasian Symphony -- Conclusions -- 8 "Novorossiia" in Russian Geopolitical Culture -- Introduction -- Methodological note: The brand "Novorossiia" and its ideological meaning -- Where is Novorossiia? Territorial indeterminacy -- Ideology of Novorossiia -- Novorossiia in online debates -- Conclusions -- Afterword: Amendments to the Constitution and Geopolitical Visions, 2020 -- Index.

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