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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Weisberg, Joseph, 1965 author.
Title: Russia upside down : an exit strategy for the second Cold War / Joseph Weisberg.
Description: First edition. | New York : PublicAffairs, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021016405 | ISBN 9781541768628 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781541768635 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: United StatesForeign relationsRussia (Federation) | Russia (Federation)Foreign relations--United States. | United StatesPolitics and government1989- | Russia (Federation)Politics and government1991
Classification: LCC E183.8.R9 W429 2021 | DDC 327.73047086dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016405
ISBNs: 978-1-5417-6862-8 (hardcover), 978-1-5417-6863-5 (ebook)
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For R
M ost writers who deal with the Soviet Union and Russia run up against the same word problem. Sometimes you mean one, sometimes you mean the other, sometimes you mean both. The most frequent solution Ive seen is to just use Russia all the time. Since Russia was the most politically and culturally dominant part of the Soviet Union, and since half the time people called the Soviet Union Russia anyway, this works reasonably well, even if its a little misleading.
But it doesnt work for me (except in the title of this book). I am referring so specifically to the Soviet Union or modern-day Russia, or both, over and over again, that the only approach I can find is to specify each time exactly which I mean. This is clumsy, and will likely drive you a little crazy, as it does me.
A merica fought a long and hard Cold War against the Soviet Union, primarily because they were communist, atheist, and politically repressive.
We, of course, were the exact opposite.
So that all made sense.
Then the Soviet Union collapsed. In short order, Russia embraced capitalism, and Orthodox Christianity reemerged as a fundamental, state-approved component of Russian identity. The government remained politically repressive, but much less so than the Soviet party/state. Although these changes were fraught and enormously complicated, our fantasy of Russia transforming into a country more like ours was, to a substantial degree, realized.
Our relationship should have improved dramatically at that point, and for a few years it did. But then the United States and Russia slid fairly rapidly into a second cold war. Maybe it started with the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, maybe it started with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014. More likely, it didnt start on a specific date at all. But we have at this point spent a number of years in this new cold war. It is an angry, dangerous confrontation, and it has done a surprising amount of damage. We have wreaked havoc on Russias economy. They have played a significant role in undermining our democratic process, and perhaps our society as a whole. Its not going well for anyone.
This book makes the case against our new cold war with Russia. It suggests that we are fighting an enemy with whom we have few if any serious conflicts of interest. It argues that we are fighting with ineffective and dangerous tools. And most of all, it aims to demonstrate that our approach is not working.
What we need is a whole new way of thinking about Russia, a completely new paradigm that will get us out of this conflict. I call this new way of thinking a self-aware politics. I know those two words fit together awkwardly. Self-aware comes from the world of psychology, and has a whiff of New Agey-ness. It can be used judgmentally, implying some people are and some people arent. It is, undeniably, fuzzy. The word politics is weightier, more practical. Even when used conceptually, its anything but fuzzy. As a word, politics doesnt want to be anywhere near self-aware.
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