Publication

12 Dec 2017

The three articles in this edition of the RAD 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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Author Natasha Kuhrt, Ruth Deyermond, David Lewis, (Series Editors: Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov)
Series Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Publisher Center for Security Studies (CSS)
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)
Copyright © 2017 Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen
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