Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction. Method in this MadnessPart I. The Anatomy of ViolenceThe State Came After the BodyBack to 1937The Final DiagnosisPeople as 'The New Oil'The Zoos of TerrorThe Generator of EntropyPart II. The Memory CrusadKolyma by the KremlinMemorial to Russian ResentmentThus Spake ZhirinovskyThe Offering Made to the Ninth of MayA Long Farewell to EmpirePart III. The War NationThe Zombie ApocalypseRevenge of the Underground ManThe Z VirusRussia Inside OutMobilization as Russian FateThe Age of the SledgehammerWar as a National IdeaThe Unfinished Work of 1945NotesIndex