No. 211:Thinking about the Revolution: Perspectives on Russia between Stability and Revolution

Author(s): Natasha Kuhrt, Ruth Deyermond, David Lewis
Series Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Volume: 211
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2017

The three articles in this edition look at 1) the difficulties Russia faces in addressing the 1917 Bolshevik revolution today, particularly given the Kremlin’s focus on stability; 2) how the Trump administration tried and failed to move US thinking about Russia beyond the twin spectres of the American and Bolshevik revolutions; and 3) how Carl Schmitt’s constitutional and political theories have influenced the anti-liberal and counter-revolutionary worldview of Russia’s political elite.

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