Moscow – Third Rome as Source of Anti-Western Russian Geopolitics
Moscow – Third Rome as Source of Anti-Western Russian Geopolitics
Author(s): Justyna DoroszczykSubject(s): Politics, Geopolitics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: Russian geopolitics; Moscow – Third Rome; anti-Western; Russian world
Summary/Abstract: Moscow as the Third Rome is the basis of Russian thinking about the state and the Russian nation and also Russian geopolitics. It is a solid foundation of anti-Western tendency in Russian geopolitics. The belief about Russia’s providential mission is a tool of differentiation between the two types of civilizations and cultures – the “rotting” western world and the Russian world, which manifests as a cradle of traditional, conservative values that individualistic, materialistic Western civilisation has rejected.
Journal: Historia i Polityka
- Issue Year: 31/2018
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 47-59
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English