Open AccessA Post-Soviet Empire?
Author(s) -
Andrey Teslya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
russia in global affairs/rossiâ v globalʹnoj politike
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.178
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1810-6439
pISSN - 1810-6374
DOI - 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-2-164-182
Subject(s) - empire , identity (music) , prefix , history , political science , foreign policy , economic history , economy , economics , ancient history , art , philosophy , aesthetics , politics , law , linguistics
“Russia’s current foreign policy is both post-imperial and post-Soviet. The prefix ‘post’ does not mean impotence or uncertainty. It means that the present is predetermined by the past, it is the inheritor of the past. The inheritor is dissimilar from what it inherits and as long as the inheritor remains dissimilar and not fully aware of its own identity, it continues to be ‘post’.”