Russia's Cultural Statecraft

Herausgeber: Makinen, Sirke; Forsberg, Tuomas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on Russiaâ s cultural statecraft in dealing with a number of institutional cultural domains such as education, museums and monuments, high arts and sport. It analyses to what extent Russiaâ s cultural activities abroad have been used for foreign policy purposes, and perceived as having a political dimension.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Contemporary Russia
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 243mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780367694357
• ISBN-10: 0367694352
• Artikelnr.: 62273495

Autorenporträt

Sirke Mäkinen is University Lecturer in Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland, and the Head of the Nationwide Expertise in Russian and Eastern European Studies (ExpREES) programme. Tuomas Forsberg is Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) at the University of Helsinki and Professor of International Relations at Tampere University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Russia's Cultural Statecraft 2. Higher Education as a Tool
for Cultural Statecraft? 3. Fine Arts and International Relations: Russian
Museum Diplomacy 4. Forging Common History: Russia's Cultural Statecraft
and the Soviet Second World War Monuments in Europe 5. 'Russian literature
will fix everything': The Read Russia Project and Cultural Statecraft 6.
The Future State: Russian Cinema and Neoliberal Cultural Statecraft 7.
Soviet Legacies and Global Contexts: Classical Music and Russia's Cultural
Statecraft 8. Stagecraft in the Service of Statecraft? Russia in the
Eurovision Song Contest 9. International Events in the Service of Cultural
Statecraft: The Sochi Olympics and the World Festival of Youth and Students
10. Sport as Cultural Statecraft: Russia and the Kontinental Hockey League
11. In Search of Past Glory: Russia's Cultural Statecraft in the Age of
Decline