Moscow – Third Rome as Source of Anti-Western Russian Geopolitics
<p>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 tw...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Historia i Polityka |
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| Online Access: | https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/HiP/article/view/17093 |
| Summary: | <p>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.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1899-5160 2391-7652 |