В поисках основ русского консерватизма. Рецензия на: Contemporary Russian Conservatism. Problems, Paradoxes, and Perspectives. Mikhail Suslov & Dmitry Uzlaner (eds.). Leiden: Brill, 2019. – 426 pp.

Abstract

The article analyzes the design features of the image of new conservatism in Russia, which is formed for the Western audience by the international research group that presented its collected papers “Contemporary Russian Conservatism. Problems, Paradoxes, and Perspectives” (Boston; Leiden: Brill, 2020). Taking into account the contextual moments, empirical material and methodological strategies, the author notes all those moments in the narration of the participants in the collection, which together show the main "fixation" of these external observers of the "conservative turn" in modern Russia. The authors of the considered book reduce the understanding of Russian realities to the format of the diamonological opposition of Russian intellectuals and politicians to the West, presenting it as a series of counter-projects, starting from the 18th century. As a result of such an “optics” (or “coordinate system”), Russian conservatism is presented as another collective application for being an intellectual product, partially and successfully applicable within the country, but unsuitable for external use, and therefore Russian conservatism is presented as original in form, but marginal in essence.