Contemporary Russian Conservatism : Problems, Paradoxes, and Perspectives.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Part 1 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Dilemmas and Paradoxes of Contemporary Russian Conservatism: Introduction -- Mikhail Suslov and Dmitry Uzlaner -- Chapter 2 -- A History of Russian Conservatism, from the 18th Century to the End of the 20th Century -- Mikhail Loukianov, Kåre Johan Mjør, Susanna Rabow-Edling, and Mikhail Suslov -- Part 2 -- Conceptualizing Conservatism -- Chapter 3 -- Russian Conservatism as an Ideology: The Logic of Isolationism -- Mikhail Suslov -- Chapter 4 -- The Logic of Scapegoating in Contemporary Russian Moral Conservatism -- Dmitry Uzlaner -- Chapter 5 -- Postmodernity and Modernity as Political Terms in Russia's New Conservatism -- Katharina Bluhm -- Part 3 -- Russian Conservative Tradition in the Post-Soviet and International Context -- Chapter 6 -- The Great Expectations of Russian Young Conservatism -- Alexander Pavlov -- Chapter 7 -- Mirror Games? Ideological Resonances between Russian and US Radical Conservatism -- Marlene Laruelle -- Part 4 -- The Geopolitical Dimension -- Chapter 8 -- Russia's Contemporary Exceptionalism and Geopolitical Conservatism -- Alicja Curanović -- Chapter 9 -- "Making Europe Great Again": Anti-Western Criticism from Orthodox Conservative Actors Online -- Ekaterina Grishaeva -- Chapter 10 -- From Expansion to Seclusion and Back Again: Boris Mezhuev's Isolationism and Its Roots in Solzhenitsyn and Tsymbursky -- Irina Karlsohn -- Part 5 -- History and Memory Narratives in Russian Conservatism -- Chapter 11 -- "Russia's Thousand-Year History": Claiming a Past in Contemporary Russian Conservative Thought -- Kåre Johan Mjør -- Chapter 12 -- The Monument to Grand Prince Vladimir in Moscow and the Problem of Conservatism -- Per-Arne Bodin -- Part 6 -- Religion and Traditional Values -- Chapter 13.

Eastern Orthodoxy, Conservatism, and (Neo)Palamite Tradition in Post-Soviet Russia -- Andrey Shishkov -- Chapter 14 -- Russian Neoconservatism and Apocalyptic Imperialism -- Victor Shnirelman -- Chapter 15 -- Framing "Gay Propaganda": Morality Policy Arguments and the Russian Orthodox Church -- Caroline Hill -- Index.

This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of contemporary Russian conservatism. It studies how the "conservative turn" under Putin manifested itself in the debates on geopolitics, morality, religion, the nation, and the Soviet past.

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