“Russian World” as a political and cultural weapon of modern Russia
Keywords:
“Russian world”, Russian-Ukrainian war, “ruscism” (Russian fascism).
Abstract
This article raises the question of “Russian world” political and cultural concept that is the mobilizing and legitimating factor not only for citizens of Russia but also for Russian speaking people from other countries in the Russian-Ukrainian war. The author grounds the idea that the political concept of “Russian world” is conditioned by: the potential that is a pledge of power and survival keeping for the regime of post-communist Russia; the ability to create new solidarity beyond territory and history that will compensate psychological consequences of dramatic concatenation of political humiliation, economic decline, cultural nihilism and general chaos after the defeat in the Cold War and ruining of the USSR; striving for justification of military invasion into the territory of independent Ukraine and system terror against civilian population. The article answers the question why in the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation we can see the dehumanization of Ukrainians as an enemy and the increase in the infringement of all the rules of modern war (mass marauding, assaults and shootings, moving of civilian population to filtration camps and total destruction of social infrastructure in just those cities where the majority of population speak Russian and are well disposed to the concept of “Russian world”).
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Pereslegin, S. (2003). Self-instruction manual for playing on the “world chessboard”. Classics of geopolitics, ХΙХ century. Moscow: AST, 697-700. (In Russian)
Pirchner, H. (2019). Post Putin: succession, stability, and Russia's future. American Foreign Policy Council: Rowman & Littlefield publishers, 122 p.
Pocheptsov, G. (2018). Cognitive Attacks in Russian Hybrid Warfare. Information & Security: An International Journal, 41, 37-43. https://doi.org/10.11610/isij.4103
Poiarkova, T. (2022). “Others” in the Ukrainian society as a result of the modern Russian-Ukrainian war. in: European journal of sustainable development, 11(1), 20-30. https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2022.v11n1p20
Putin, V. (2021). “Russians and Ukrainians are one people. Together we are stronger and more successful”. Fontanka. https://www.fontanka.ru/2021/07/12/70021085/ (In Russian)
Putin, V. (2022). About the situation in Ukraine. https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2022/03/16/vladimir-putin-o-situacii-na-ukraine-polnyy-tekst (In Russian)
Reich, W. (1980). The Mass Psychology of Fascism. Editorial: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 395 p.
Sergunin, Al. (2004). Discussions of international relations in post-communist Russia. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 37(1), March, 19-35. doi: 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2003.12.007
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Toffler, A. (1993). War and Anti-War: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century. Little Brown and Company, 302 p.
Toffler, A., & Toffler, H. (2006). Revolutionary wealth how it will be created and how it will change our lives. Curtis Brown Ltd. 490 p.
Van Creveld, M. (1991). Transformation of War. New York: Free Press, 243 р.
Volkovskyi, V. (2021). Independence in opposition to the “Russian world”: a philosophical world. Philosophy of Education, 27(1), 57-77. https://doi.org/10.31874/2309-1606-2021-27-1-4
Wallerstein, I. (1974). The modern world-system. Vol. I: Capitalist agriculture andthe origins of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century. San Di-ego: Academic Press, 440 p.
Wallerstein, I. (1991). Geopolitics and geoculture: Essays on the changing world-system. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 252 p.
Zaporozhtseva, G. (2016). On the ways of returning Ukraine to the bosom of the Russian world. Izborsky club. Russian strategies. Doctrine of the Russian world, No. 6-7 (42-43), 120-127. (In Russian)
Published
2023-02-28
How to Cite
Poiarkova, T. (2023). “Russian World” as a political and cultural weapon of modern Russia. Amazonia Investiga, 12(61), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2023.61.01.8
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