The Russia anxiety : and how history can resolve it / Mark B. Smith.
By: Smith, Mark B [author.]
.Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2020Description: xxv, 445 pages : maps, illustration.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141986500.Subject(s): Russia -- Foreign relations | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations | Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations | Russia -- History | Soviet Union -- History | Russia (Federation) -- History | Russia (Federation) -- Foreign public opinionDDC classification: 327.47 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| 327.47 RUS Russia's foreign policy : | 327.47 RUS Russian grand strategy in the era of global power competition / | 327.47 SHE Hard diplomacy and soft coercion : | 327.47 SMI The Russia anxiety : and how history can resolve it / | 327.47 TRE Should we fear Russia? / | 327.4700904 HAS Russia's Cold War : | 327.4701821 ALL Russia, the West and military intervention / |
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2019.
I. Fear, contempt and disregard -- The bear phantasmagoria : did history create the Russia anxiety? -- The destiny problem : does history's 'Black Legend' set Russia up to fail? -- The narrative correction : what's really happened in the last 6,000 years? -- II. Normality, friendship and liberty? -- The dictatorship deception : does Russia's past offer democratic prospects? -- The terror moment : is Russia built on a history of violence? -- The Europe question : has Russia even been part of the West? -- The empire relationship : is expansionism in Russia's DNA? -- The invader obsession : does history make Russians seek peace or war? -- III. The fireglow of history -- The Stalin inheritance : should Russians remember the past or forget it? -- The Putin prospect : is Russia's future contained in her past?