@article{1437634,
      recid = {1437634},
      author = {Oskanian, Kevork,},
      title = {Russian exceptionalism between East and West : the  ambiguous empire /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This monograph provides a novel long-term approach to the  role of Russias imperial legacies in its interactions with  the former Soviet space. It develops Hybrid Exceptionalism  as a critical conceptual tool aimed at uncovering the great  powers self-positioning between East and West, and its  hierarchical claims over subalterns situated in both  civilizational imaginaries. It explores how, in the  Tsarist, Soviet, and contemporary eras, distinct  civilizational spaces were created, and maintained, through  narratives and practices emanating from Russias ambiguous  relationship with Western modernity, and its  part-identification with a subordinated Orient. The Romanov  Empires struggles with Russianness, the USSRs  Marxism-Leninism, and contemporary Russias combination of  feigned liberal and civilizational discourses are explored  as the basis of a series of successive civilising missions,  through an interdisciplinary engagement with official  discourses, scholarship, and the arts. The book concludes  with an exploration of contemporary policy implications for  the West, and the former Soviet states themselves.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1437634},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69713-6},
}