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This fascinating book analyzes the sources, contents, and implications of contemporary Russian messianism. The medieval idea of Moscow as the 'Third Rome' has been fascinating scholars and students of Russia for more than 150 years. Since its rediscovery, ideologists, writers, and politicians ranging from Western critics of Moscow's foreign policy to ardent Russian imperialists have used the concept as 'evidence' of Russian particularism and expansionism. But for the author of the idea of the Third Rome, the Orthodox monk Filofei (Philotheus) of Pskov, it was a religious concept he referred to when criticizing what he saw as the apostasy of his time. Authors of Russian history textbooks often see it as a political, even imperialist idea, whereas specialist medievalists for decades have been arguing that it cannot be regarded as anything else than religious and other-worldly. This book is the first to look beyond this dichotomy between the 'original religious idea' of the Third Rome and its 'use' for political purposes. Drawing on theories of political myth and concepts of nationalism, Østbø develops a novel analytical perspective. Rather than dismissing political uses of the religi

Author

Jardar Østbø; Universitetet i Bergen

Publisher

Ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild U Christian Scho

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9783838209005

Subjects

History, Sociology, Humanities