{"product_id":"state-ideology-science-and-pseudoscience-in-russia-between-the-cosmos-and-the-earth-9781666905687","title":"State Ideology, Science, and Pseudoscience in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book recounts the entangled stories of three distinctly Russian movements—state ideology, Russian cosmism, and Eurasianism—from their inception at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century until now. Despite harboring pseudoscientific and mystical ideas specific to Russia, all three movements were propagated by their followers as “universal sciences,” and all three vied for scientific supremacy and universal acceptance. Suppressed by the Bolsheviks and their state ideology as “unscientific” in the 1920s, Russian cosmism and Eurasianism led an esoteric underground existence during the Soviet period and re-emerged in the dying years of the Soviet Union, seeking not only to reclaim their “scientific” status but also to potentially fill the perplexing vacuum left by the ensuing demise of Soviet state ideology. This study relates the post-Soviet search for a new state ideology, or new National Idea, at the federal and regional levels, based on the Kremlin’s projects and the case of the ethnic Republic of Kalmykia in south-west Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I: STATE IDEOLOGY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Ideology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Soviet Ideology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II: PSEUDOSCIENCE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Russian Cosmism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Eurasianism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART III: KALMYKIA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Kalmykia and Its History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the Nebulous Savior\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART IV: STATE IDEOLOGY OF KALMYKIA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Ideology of Wisdom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the Fallen Angel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Why Do People Still Need Ideology?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART V: FUTURE IDEOLOGY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 What’s Next?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Digital Ideologies?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042000339287,"sku":"9781666905687","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666905687.jpg?v=1750952560","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/state-ideology-science-and-pseudoscience-in-russia-between-the-cosmos-and-the-earth-9781666905687","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}