Opis: Black Wind, White Snow - Charles Clover

Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism's origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia's Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vladimir Putin. This eye-opening analysis pieces together the evidence for Eurasianism's place at the heart of Kremlin thinking today and explores its impact on recent events, the annexation of Crimea, the rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist rhetoric, as well as Putin's sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions. Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin's close advisers, this quietly explosive story will be essential reading for anyone concerned with Russia's past century, and its future. "An important contribution to this discussion...Mr. Clover's reporting is excellent."-The Economist The Economist "What did Putin mean by 'Eurasia' and where does his project come from? This is the question Charles Clover sets out to answer in this though-provoking book. Part intellectual history, part portrait gallery... Black Wind, White Snow traces the background to Putin's ideas with verve and clarity."-Geoffrey Hosking, Financial Times -- Geoffrey Hosking Financial Times "Black Wind, White Snow is required reading. This is a vivid, panoramic history of bad ideas, chasing the metastasis of the doctrine known as Eurasianism... Reading Charles Clover will help you understand the world of lies and delusions that is Eurasia."-Ben Judah, Standpoint -- Ben Judah Standpoint "[A] deeply researched, fascinating account of how nationalist views that were once dissident or marginal in the Soviet Union seeped into the corridors of power in the Kremlin when Marxism-Leninism stopped working... Clover's book deserves to win prizes for originality of mind as well as the strength of his liver - he has spent many nights drinking with these nationalists."-Michael Burleigh, the Times -- Michael Burleigh The Times "The new Russian nationalism for which Dugin speaks is entirely genuine. Clover casts a considerable light on its roots, on its passionate bias against the West, and on the Russian reality with which the rest of us now have to deal. His is therefore a book that needs to be read."-Rodric Braithwaite, Open Russia -- Rodric Braithwaite Open Russia

Szczegóły: Black Wind, White Snow - Charles Clover

Tytuł: Black Wind, White Snow
Autor: Charles Clover
Wydawnictwo: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300120707
Rok wydania: 2016
Ilość stron: 384
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.81 kg

Recenzje: Black Wind, White Snow - Charles Clover