The New Third Rome: Readings of a Russian Nationalist Myth

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
On Transliteration, Translations, References and Sources
Author’s preface
Foreword
1. Introduction
	Research Aims
	Myths and the Invention of Nations
	Research on the Third Rome
	Theorizing the Modern Uses of a Medieval Idea
	Case Studies: Selection, Sources and Method
	Structure of the Book
2. Russian Nationalism
	Russian National Identity – Crisis and Reinvention
	Defining ‘Nation’
	Defining ‘Nationalism’
	Clarifying ‘Invention’
	Russia – Different Nation, Different Nationalism
	(Political) Orthodoxy and Russian Nationalism
	A Tentative Typology of Russian Nationalism
3. Myths of a Myth?
	What is Political Myth? Definitions
	The Narrative of the Third Rome as Political Myth
	Scholarship versus Myth-Making
	Mythopoeic or ‘Demythologizing’: Generalist Scholarship
	Back to the Sources?
	Escaping the ‘Purist’ Paradigm
4. Vadim Tsymburskii – Island Third Rome
	The Rise of a Civilization
	Island Russia – Island Third Rome
	Prime Symbol
	Third Rome – Third International – Kitezh
	Hermeneutics of the Apocalypse: the Fourth Rome
	After the Apocalypse: the Russian Counter-Reformation
	Conclusions
5. Aleksandr Dugin – To Kill for the Third Rome
	Rome and Carthage
	The Russian Eurasian Empire
	Sacral Geography: Dugin the ‘Jungian’ Analyst
	The Wheel of the Third Rome: the Sole Modus Vivendi
	Dugin’s Symphony of Geopolitics and ‘Theology’
	Moscow as Katechon
	Messianism
	The Catastrophic Schism
	Peter I Seals the Fate of the Third Rome – Temporarily
	The Transcendental Third Rome
	The Bolshevik Restoration of the Third Rome
	The Ethics of the Third Rome – Thou Shalt Kill
	The Future of the Third Rome
	Conclusions
6. Nataliia Narochnitskaia – Inverting the Myth
	Narochnitskaia’s Weltanschauung
	A Moral View of History
	The Idea of Rome and its Perversion in the West
	Orthodoxy: True Third Rome
	Heresy: False Third Rome
	The Geopolitical Dimension: the ‘Eastern Question’
	The Use of the Third Rome: Western Temptations
	Ahistorical Historiography
	Conclusions: Inversion of the Third Rome Myth
7. Egor Kholmogorov – Bridgehead in Heaven
	Centripetal Russia
	The Third Rome: the Only Empire
	Proactive Conservatism: Bonesetting Russia
	Restoring Russia’s Future by Sensocratic Means
	Russification of a Geopolitical Myth
	Autogenous Autocracy – Autogenous Third Rome?
	Total Mobilization
	Nuclear Bombs and Russian Saints
	A Bridgehead in Heaven
	Conclusions
8. Conclusions
	The Uses of the Political Myth of the Third Rome
	The Status of the Political Myth of the Third Rome
Epilogue: Entering the Mainstream
	Views on the Ukrainian Crisis
	The Myth of the Third Rome and the Ukrainian Crisis
	Conclusions
Bibliography