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Russia’s Cultural Statecraft book cover

1st Edition

Russia’s Cultural Statecraft

Edited By Tuomas Forsberg, Sirke Mäkinen Copyright 2022
262 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focusses on Russia’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 Russia’s cultural activities abroad have been used for foreign policy purposes, and perceived as having a political dimension. Building on the concept of cultural statecraft, the authors present a... Read more
  1. Introduction: Russia’s Cultural Statecraft

    2. Tuomas Forsberg and Sirke Mäkinen

  2. Higher Education as a Tool for Cultural Statecraft?

    3. Sirke Mäkinen

  3. Fine Arts and International Relations: Russian Museum Diplomacy

    4. Julia Bethwaite

  4. Forging Common History: Russia’s Cultural Statecraft and the Soviet Second World War Monuments in Europe

    5. Lina Klymenko

  5. ‘Russian literature will fix everything’: The Read Russia Project and Cultural Statecraft

    6. Angelos Theocharis

  6. The Future State: Russian Cinema and Neoliberal Cultural Statecraft

    7. Vlad Strukov

  7. Soviet Legacies and Global Contexts: Classical Music and Russia’s Cultural Statecraft

    8. Elina Viljanen

  8. Stagecraft in the Service of Statecraft? Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest

    9. Mari Pajala and Dean Vuletic

  9. International Events in the Service of Cultural Statecraft: The Sochi Olympics and the World Festival of Youth and Students

    10. Pia Koivunen

  10. Sport as Cultural Statecraft: Russia and the Kontinental Hockey League

    11. Tuomas Forsberg

  11. In Search of Past Glory: Russia’s Cultural Statecraft in the Age of Decline

Sergei Medvedev

Biography

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.

"This book is a fascinating contribution to both IR and Russian studies, as it elaborates a useful tool for understanding the role of culture in international politics and presents the analysis of various domains of Russia’s cultural statecraft thus exploring an important but largely neglected aspect of its international activity."

Olga Malinova, Higher School of Economics, Russia.

"This innovative analysis of cultural statecraft shifts the focus away from the competitive and ultimately reductionist notion of ‘soft power’ to the inherent grace of cultural achievement and interactions at the state and interstate level, theorising the elements of contention and cooperation and combining them into a coherent new paradigm. A brilliant and original team effort."

Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, UK.

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