‘Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality’: Putin’s Remaking of Imperial Russia

Title: ‘Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality’: Putin’s Remaking of Imperial Russia
Creator: Markwick, Roger D.
Relation: Arena Quarterly Vol. -, Issue 10
Publisher: Arena
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2022
Description: There is no doubt that geopolitical rivalries with the United States, in the threatening guise of NATO expansion, fuelled the tensions with Russia that erupted in full-scale war against Ukraine. Moscow has a justified, centuries-long fear of invasion from Western Europe, which was catastrophically confirmed by Hitler’s apocalyptic 1941–45 ‘war of annihilation’ against the Soviet Union. But the NATO factor is only one side of the story. It is equally evident that a resurgent, post-Soviet Russia, under its increasingly authoritarian president Vladimir Putin, has been girding itself for war under the banner of re-establishing a Great Russian Empire, in the first instance in the graveyard of Ukraine. ‘Ukraine is not even a state’, Putin is reported to have declared in 2008 to his US counterpart George Bush in Bucharest, threatening that should Ukraine join NATO, ‘this state would cease to exist’.
Subject: Putin; Russia; Ukraine; war
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1488097
Identifier: uon:52346
Identifier: ISSN:1320-6567
Language: eng
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