Russia’s Changing Identity: In Search of a Role in the 21st Century
Russia’s brand of exceptionalism is not messianic.... ... Kievan Rus, after its capital city—was an Eastern European country of multiple Slavic tribes ruled by ... ... and southwestern principalities (now Belarus and Ukraine, respectively) lost their independence and ... ... Germany. Victory in World War II transformed the USSR into a world superpower, with a powerful nuclear-armed ... ... becoming part of the Atlantic system centered on NATO, and part of a Greater Europe built around the ...