Introduction

Giancarlo Bosetti – Reset Dialogues on Civilizations

 Participants in the discussion

Giuliano Amato – Judge of the Italian Constitutional Court and Former Prime Minister of Italy

Armando Barucco – Head of the Analysis, Planning and Historic Diplomatic Documentation Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Andrea Graziosi – ANVUR and University of Naples Federico II

Mark Kramer – Cold War Studies and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Andrei Melville – National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Anna Zafesova – Journalist for the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa

This volume, edited by Riccardo Mario Cucciolla (IMT Institute of Advanced Studies) and published by Reset DOC, is based on the proceedings of the workshop “State and Political Discourse in Russia” organized by Reset DOC in 2016 and collects essays written by Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Alexey Barabashev, Anton Barbashin, Giancarlo Bosetti, Maria Engström, Nina Khrushcheva, Olga Malinova, Andrei Melville and Vladislav Zubok, with a theoretical introduction by Mark Kramer.  Authors explore the multiplicity of discourses associated with contemporary Russia and different places of ideological production, revealing the plurality and fluidity that characterize Russian political languages. What cultural and ideological references shape Russian political culture? Which are the ideological constructs promoted by the Kremlin? What remains of Russian liberalism and who are its representatives?

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