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A War Made in Russia

Sergei Medvedev Stephen Dalziel

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English
Polity Press
27 October 2023
In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin’s obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation and post-imperial ressentiment, a culmination of Putin’s regime and of Russia’s entire imperial history.  Building on his prize-winning book The Return of the Russian Leviathan, Medvedev argues that it was not only Putin that started this war, but Russia itself, which, by and large, has imagined and embraced it with enthusiasm, seeking to relive its own military glory and colonial past.

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Imprint:   Polity Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   227g
ISBN:   9781509558407
ISBN 10:   1509558403
Pages:   198
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction. Method in this Madness Part I. The Anatomy of Violence      The State Came After the Body      Back to 1937      The Final Diagnosis      People as ‘The New Oil’      The Zoos of Terror      The Generator of Entropy Part II. The Memory Crusad      Kolyma by the Kremlin      Memorial to Russian Resentment      Thus Spake Zhirinovsky      The Offering Made to the Ninth of May      A Long Farewell to Empire      Part III. The War Nation      The Zombie Apocalypse      Revenge of the Underground Man      The Z Virus      Russia Inside Out      Mobilization as Russian Fate      The Age of the Sledgehammer War as a National Idea      The Unfinished Work of 1945      Notes Index

Sergei Medvedev is a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki and a Professor at the Charles University in Prague.

Reviews for A War Made in Russia

‘Medvedev represents the best of the Russian critical tradition.  His clear writing and creative analysis stand out amidst the muddle of twenty-first-century writing about Russia. He has been right all along and he is right again in this book.’ Tim Snyder, Yale University ‘In an ocean of recently published books on Putin and Putin’s Russia, Medvedev’s illuminating work stands on its own with its focus on Russia’s Putin: Putin as an embodiment of Russia’s national idea.’ Ivan Krastev, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia ‘Brilliant’ Victor Sebestyen, The Sunday Times ‘The outstanding clarity of Medvedev’s thought and style places him in the front rank of Russian-born critics of Putin.’ Financial Times


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