Russia’s Interventions: Counterrevolutionary Power

Vladimir Gligorov

No 1, wiiw Essays and Occasional Papers from The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw

Abstract: Abstract The key point is about Russia, old and new, being a counterrevolutionary power Russia’s post-Napoleonic War and moreover post-1848 policy was counterrevolutionary abroad and conservative, even when reformist, at home, as is Russia’s current post-Soviet, post-Cold War policy. However, while the current foreign policy end is Russian, the instruments of intervention, e.g. in Syria, are Soviet. The main difference as compared to both, Tsarist Russian and Soviet, is Russia’s lack of a universalistic ideological justification now, notwithstanding all the attempts to revive the ideology of the Russian cultural and civilisational exceptionalism to supress liberal changes at home, and for that reason also abroad.

Keywords: Russia; foreign policy; industrialisation; EU (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 N40 N43 N44 O14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2016-01
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