Russia against modernity
E-book, Czech
Russia against modernity
Why contemporary Russia is in decline and turning to aggression
With a deep knowledge of Russian affairs, the author offers a penetrating analysis of the causes and course of the social, economic and political decline of contemporary Russia, which has resulted in aggression against Ukraine. He describes the country as a typical “petrostate” that has squandered the chance to use its mineral wealth for its own modernisation. He then explains the inability to embrace modernity as an attempt by the Kremlin to slow its spread even beyond the country's borders and to return the world to the power models of the past.
Alexander Etkind
Alexander Etkind (1955) is a Russian historian and cultural theorist who works at the Central European University in Vienna and specialises in social history, political economy and cultural dynamics. He deals with the transformations of modern societies, the mechanisms of power and the legacy of totalitarian regimes. He is the author of numerous books and essays on Russian society, modernity and the conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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