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The article analyses the essence and reasons for the 'neo-pagan turn' of Russian culture and philosophy of the 19th-21st centuries to the theme of 'corporality,' which is presented in a wide range of approaches from Russian romanticism to modern Russian projects of 'new metaphysics' and 'progressive archaism.' The author exemplifies the actualization of the corporality theme as the renaissance of...
Both Russia and Poland – to varying degrees – tend to maintain ties with “compatriots” living abroad, but these two groups are distinct in their essence. Poles living outside Poland can be rather qualified as part/parts of divided people, whereas Russian-backed compatriots form a divided nation, and moreover, form not a divided nation of the Russian Federation, but a post-Soviet one. The Government...
The King’s New Clothes: Constructing and Reconstructing Ethnic Traditions in Contemporary BuriatiaThe text is a review of Ewa Nowicka’s book. The review contains an overview of field research and contents of the book. It convincingly shows how political and social elites of Russian Buriatia try to construct or reconstruct Buriat ethnic identity. The review demonstrates that the book fulfilled its...
Hybrid war: real casualties in UkraineThe Russo-Ukrainian war that broke out in 2014 in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea continues to be all too rarely noticed in the West. Observers comment widely on the novel ‘hybrid’ character of warfare as developed and trialed by the Kremlin worldwide during the recent years, but pay scant attention to the Russian ‘training ground’ in eastern Ukraine...
The Great Patriotic War in Russian history textbooksThe topic of this article is presenting how the Great Patriotic War (GPW) is depicted in Russian national history textbooks. Here, I consider textbooks not only as a source of knowledge about the past times, but first and foremost as a tool to create the state’s historical policy. I examine the GPW, in turn, as a fundamental myth of the Russian society...
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