Author:
Medvedev, Sergei, author.
ImprintCambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, 2023.
Imprint2023
Descriptionvi, 186 pages ; 23 cm
Note:Introduction : Method in this madness -- Part I. The anatomy of violence -- The state came after the body -- Back to 1937 -- The final diagnosis -- People as "the new oil" -- The zoos of terror -- The generator of entropy -- Part II. The memory crusade -- Kolyma by the Kremlin -- Memorial to Russian resentment -- Thus spake Zhirinovsky -- The offering made to the ninth of May -- A long farewell to empire -- Part III. The war nation -- The zombie apocalypse -- Revenge of the underground man -- The z virus -- Russia inside out -- Mobilization as Russian fate -- The age of the sledgehammer -- War as a national idea -- The unfinished work of 1945.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"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." -- Provided by publisher.
