Society and Intellectual Life in Russia
The Impact of the Ukraine Invasion
Society and Intellectual Life in Russia
The Impact of the Ukraine Invasion
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The invasion of Ukraine on February 24th 2022 sent shockwaves around the world. Putin took lives, homes and shattered hopes for peace. But how did this affect Russian scholarship and society? This urgent volume provides a unique insight into Russia's current intellectual and societal crisis, written by a team of authors representing the Independent Institute of Philosophy (IPHI), an organisation founded by and made up of Russian scholars who left the country in dissent in 2022.
Divided into 2 parts, Part I investigates the effect the war has had on intellectual life in Russia today. Protests, the suspension of collaborative projects, dismissals and the emigration of many colleagues have split the academic community. With expertise spanning across the social sciences, authors explore topics ranging from the silencing of political theorists to the political instrumentalization of biotechnology. Broadening the focus, Part II then extends the analysis to wider societal changes in Russia. With strikingly parallel themes of limited autonomy and politicization, chapters examine the entanglement of the Orthodox Church with state power, the weaponization of social media algorithms targeting young people and literature's role in advocating the myth of the Russian world.
Bringing together émigrés from a vast array of fields across philosophy, politics, religion, communication studies and more, this book not only documents the societal shifts in Russia but also offers critical tools to understand their long-term implications. Russian Society and the Ukraine War is a must-read for anyone interested in the continuing impact of the Kremlin's politics and, moreover, what it teaches us about the effects of totalitarianism on academic and social freedoms.
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Table of Contents
Part I: War and Russia's Academic Community
1. Sovereign Philosophy, Yulia Sineokaya (INALCO, Paris, France)
2. What About the “Tabooed” Critical Political Theory?, Sergei Akopov (Free University of Berlin, Germany )
3. History of Russian philosophy: Political Instrumentalization of the Discipline Before and During the War, Ekaterina Rozova (Sorbonne University, France)
4. Images of Military Victory in Russian History Textbooks, Arseniy Kumankov (Princeton University, USA)
5. Reactualization of Nikolai Berdyaev's Concept of the “New Middle Ages” for Modern Russian Philosophy, Aleksandra Berdnikova (University of Turin, Italy)
6. German Studies as Political Activism: Contemporary Russian Politics in the Light of the German Anti-fascist Propaganda of the Second World War, Igor Ebanoidze (Independent researcher)
7. Immanuel Kant and Russian Politics during the War Period, Alexey Zhavoronkov (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Part II: War and Russian Society
8. The Paradox of Russian Anti-Westernism, Dmitry Uzlaner (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
9. An Applied Theology of Empire: A Pyrrhic Victory of Russian Orthodoxy under Putin, Alexander Agadjanian (Yerevan State University, Armenia)
10. Church and War, Mikhail Burmistrov (Independent researcher)
11. Militant Kleptocracy and its Friends, Boris Kashnikov (University of Cambridge, UK)
12. Literature in the Mirror of the Russian Apocalypse /History has Stopped its Course..., Natalia Gromova (Free University Online)
13. Mediacide: Violence against Media in Putin's Russia, Andrey Logutov (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and Boris Podoroga (University of Lille, France)
14. Global Bioethics and Local Trends in Russia: 'Specific' Relational Approaches and Longtermism-washing, Sergei Shevchenko (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Addendum: War and the Russian Philosophical Community, The Unbearable Lightness of Choice, Yulia Sineokaya (INALCO, Paris, France)
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Product details
| Published | 10 Jun 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350573284 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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