Russia's New Imperialism

Capital and Ideology

AvIlya Budraitskis,Ilya Matveev

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Russia's devastating invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is a manifestation of a wider phenomenon: Russia's new, post-Soviet imperialism. This book provides a theoretically informed, critical account of Russian imperialism that is attentive to the interplay between economy and ideology, coercion and hegemony, structure and agency. While economic developments go a long way toward explaining the reemergence of Russia's imperialist impulses in the twenty-first century, a purely economic logic cannot account for the dramatic shift in Russian imperialism beginning with the annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist insurgency in the Donbas. Nor can objective geopolitical developments, such as US and NATO military deployments, provide an adequate explanation for this shift. Instead, this book shows how the Kremlin's reaction to the Maidan revolution was rooted in the ideological consolidation of the previous years: the emergence of a total ideology that designates the West as Russia's eternal enemy and Ukraine as the West's geopolitical pawn. Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev examine Russian foreign policy and the Kremlin's project to remake the Russian people to better serve its imperialist agenda.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Stanford University Press
ISBN:9781503647732

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Ilya Budraitskis is a political theorist and researcher in Russian intellectual history. He is the author of Dissidents Among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia (2022).Ilya Matveev is a researcher in Russian and international political economy. He is a member of the Public Sociology Laboratory.

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"A pathbreaking analysis of Russia's war and the political economy behind it. Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev move beyond both realist geopolitics and simplistic Marxist models to reveal how post-Soviet capitalism, state power, and imperial ideology combined to produce a profoundly irrational and destructive imperial project. Essential reading for anyone trying to understand the present world order." —Robert Brenner, University of California, Los Angeles "Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev—two of the sharpest analysts of contemporary Russia—trace how post-Soviet 'adventurist capitalism' and the myths of 'Historical Russia' fused under Putin into an ideology of ruthless survival. This masterwork of political synthesis exposes the invasion of Ukraine as the chilling culmination of a decades-long remaking of Putinism."—Alexei Yurchak, University of California, Berkeley

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The New Capitalist Imperialism2. The Birth of Ideology Out of the Spirit of Cynicism3. The Kremlin's Complexes of Ideas4. From Annexation to Invasion5. Myths and Failures of Empire6. In Search of the "Imperial SyndromeEpilogueNotesReferencesIndex