Civilizational Discourses in Doctoral Dissertations in Post-Soviet Russia
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Civilizational Discourses in Doctoral Dissertations in Post-Soviet Russia. / Suslov, Mikhail; Kotkina, Irina.
Russia as Civilization: Ideological Discourses in Politics, Media and Academia. ed. / Kåre Johan Mjør; Sanna Turoma. Routledge, 2020. p. 164-185.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Civilizational Discourses in Doctoral Dissertations in Post-Soviet Russia
AU - Suslov, Mikhail
AU - Kotkina, Irina
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Mikhail Suslov and Irina Kotkina explore the production of civilizationism in Russian academia, zooming in on Russian doctoral dissertations defended in 1998–2017. The ubiquity of civilizational rhetoric in academic research, as they argue, brings together compliant academics and intellectuals, the political elite as well as military and security officials. Among the most famous doctoral candidates encountered in their analysis are the minister of culture Vladimir Medinskii and the prominent politician Dmitrii Rogozin. Suslov and Kotkina contextualize civilizational rhetoric in contemporary Russian conservatism and its widespread use of organicist concepts. Civilizational rhetoric has become the default language of pro-Kremlin ideologists for describing Russia, and the language is rehearsed in academic theses. Foundational texts are those of Lev Gumilev and Samuel Huntington. The securitization of Russian civilization, the aim being to protect it from “foreign” influence, figures prominently in dissertations by politicians and security officials. Civilizationism serves to portray Russia as self-sufficient and as possessing its own logic of historical development. The authors conclude that civilizationism in the present Russian academic world has blurred the distinctions between research, politics, and opinion journalism.
AB - Mikhail Suslov and Irina Kotkina explore the production of civilizationism in Russian academia, zooming in on Russian doctoral dissertations defended in 1998–2017. The ubiquity of civilizational rhetoric in academic research, as they argue, brings together compliant academics and intellectuals, the political elite as well as military and security officials. Among the most famous doctoral candidates encountered in their analysis are the minister of culture Vladimir Medinskii and the prominent politician Dmitrii Rogozin. Suslov and Kotkina contextualize civilizational rhetoric in contemporary Russian conservatism and its widespread use of organicist concepts. Civilizational rhetoric has become the default language of pro-Kremlin ideologists for describing Russia, and the language is rehearsed in academic theses. Foundational texts are those of Lev Gumilev and Samuel Huntington. The securitization of Russian civilization, the aim being to protect it from “foreign” influence, figures prominently in dissertations by politicians and security officials. Civilizationism serves to portray Russia as self-sufficient and as possessing its own logic of historical development. The authors conclude that civilizationism in the present Russian academic world has blurred the distinctions between research, politics, and opinion journalism.
U2 - 10.4324/9781003045977-8
DO - 10.4324/9781003045977-8
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780367493851
SP - 164
EP - 185
BT - Russia as Civilization
A2 - Mjør, Kåre Johan
A2 - Turoma, Sanna
PB - Routledge
ER -
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