Russia Against Modernity

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A few decades of observations and debates lie behind this book, but its text was written over several months during the Russian invasion in Ukraine in 2022.1 am grateful to the institutions that supported me during those years and months: the European University Institute in Florence; the College of the Future at the University of Konstanz; and the Central European University in Vienna.

John Thompson at Polity Press gave an (almost) uncondi­tional approval to my proposal. Pavel Kolar, Gruia Badescu and Aleida Assmann helped me find the proper words for my thoughts during our discussions in Konstanz. Juliane Furst and several anonymous reviewers read the manuscript and provided invaluable feedback. Dirk Moses and Michael Berdy commissioned me to write articles that I recycled for this book. Tim Clark, John Kennedy, Anatoly Belogorsky and Maria Bratischeva generously helped with criticisms and edit­ing. Mark Etkind, always an inspiration, polished some of my formulations. Several generations of students and friends in St. Petersburg, Cambridge, Lviv, Florence, Riga, Vienna and elsewhere will find here my responses to their questions and objections.

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