RUSSIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT TODAY

Abstract

“Anthology of political texts, speeches and interviews” is the subtitle of the book by the Serbian diplomat, scientific worker and writer Vladimir Kršljanin.

This panorama of the Russian political mainstream contains the texts of the most famous Russian politicians, scientists and journalists of a patriotic orientation, created in the last three years, which Kršljanin selected and translated, and some of them were accompanied by comments. The collection contains a total of 30 texts by 25 authors, of which the most well-known to our public are: V. Putin, S. Baburin, G. Zyuganov, S. Glazjev, A. Dugin, V. Surkov, I. Panarin, N. Naročnjicka, N. Patrushev, J. Guskova, S. Karaganov.

The book discusses the most current international and most significant Russian political, as well as economic and spiritual topics. In terms of scope, such books are rare in the world, but also in Russia itself, although interest in the political dimension of contemporary Russia is growing everywhere.

Reviewers and afterword writers, Živojin Đurić and Marko Pejković, stated that Kršljanin chose texts in accordance with the cornerstone of the Russian idea as a dominantly spiritual category. According to Đurić and Pejković, the common characteristic of all the texts of this book is that the spiritual has primacy over the material, that Orthodoxy is the main spiritual characteristic of historical Russia and that the world must not be unipolar.

The book is a joint publication of the Institute for Political Studies and the company “Informatika” from Belgrade and the International Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Education, Arts and Culture from Moscow.