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This book focuses 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.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Russia’s Cultural Statecraft 2. Higher Education as a Tool for Cultural Statecraft? 3. Fine Arts and International Relations: Russian Museum Diplomacy 4. Forging Common History: Russia’s Cultural Statecraft and the Soviet Second World War Monuments in Europe 5. ‘Russian literature will fix everything’: The Read Russia Project and Cultural Statecraft 6. The Future State: Russian Cinema and Neoliberal Cultural Statecraft 7. Soviet Legacies and Global Contexts: Classical Music and Russia’s Cultural Statecraft 8. Stagecraft in the Service of Statecraft? Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 9. International Events in the Service of Cultural Statecraft: The Sochi Olympics and the World Festival of Youth and Students 10. Sport as Cultural Statecraft: Russia and the Kontinental Hockey League 11. In Search of Past Glory: Russia’s Cultural Statecraft in the Age of Decline
About the author
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.
Summary
This book focuses 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.
