The Russian Challenge to the European Union by Roger E. Kanet

Subjects: “…Russia, European Union, United States, ‘Greater Russia’, liberal international system, confrontation…”
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THE PEASANT QUESTION IN RUSSIA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY IN THE EYES OF SEMENOV-TYANSHANSKY by A. N. Dolgikh

“…In this sense, Semenov-Tyan-Shansky is more traditional: he does not hide the existence of abuses of landlord rights, especially in relation to domestic people, but at the same time seeks to show the diversity of such relations in greater Russia, expressing the hope in hindsight that the solution to this age-old problem could only be a solution "from above", justifying thus, the subsequent peasant reform of 1861.…”
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The Russian Orthodox Church and atheism by Teuvo Laitila

“…Moreover, whatever the personal convictions of individual Russians, including politicians, religious, mainly Orthodox Christian, rhetoric and rituals are used to make a definitive break with the communist past and to create, or re-create, a Greater Russia (see Simons 2009). In such an ideological climate, atheism has little chance of thriving, whereas there is a sort of ‘social demand’ for its critique.I therefore focus on what the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has had to say about atheism and how her statements can be related to a break with the past and the construction of a new Russia. …”
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