Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258).
Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- On transliteration, translations, references and sources -- Author's preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Research Aims -- Myths and the invention of nations -- Research on the third Rome -- Theorizing the modern uses of a medieval idea -- Case studies : selection, sources and method -- Structure of the book -- Russian nationalism -- Russian national identity : crisis and reinvention -- Defining 'Nation' -- Defining 'Nationalism' -- Clarifying 'Invention' -- Russia : different nation, different nationalism -- Imperialism versus nationalism? -- Statist versus culturalist nationalism? -- (Political) orthodoxy and russian nationalism -- A tentative typology of russian nationalism -- Myths of a myth? -- What is political myth? definitions -- Political myth as carrier of ideology -- Political myth as a story about a political society -- The enlightenment ideal : political myth as regress -- Political myth as incitement to action -- Functionalism : political myth in the construction of societies -- Bottici : political myth as process -- The narrative of the third rome as political myth -- Scholarship versus myth-making -- Mythopoeic or 'Demythologizing' : generalist scholarship -- Vladimir solov'ev -reconciling east and west -- Fedorov and Russia's universal mission -- Émigrés pro & contra -- Florovskii : from apocalyptic minor to chiliastic major -- Berdiaev's game of words -- Toynbee and his critics -- Ul'ianov : religion, not imperialism; nation, not empire -- Pipes and narochnitskaia -- Back to the sources? -- Epistle to misiur'-munekhin -- Epistle to Grand Prince of Muscovy Vasilii Ivanovich -- On the Church's Calamities -- 'Purism' : a solution? -- Escaping the 'Purist' paradigm -- Vadim Tsymburskii : Island third Rome -- The rise of a civilization -- Island Russia : Island third Rome -- Prime symbol -- Third Rome : third international : Kitezh -- Hermeneutics of the apocalypse : the fourth Rome -- After the apocalypse : the Russian counter-reformation -- Conclusions -- Aleksandr Dugin : to kill for the third Rome -- Rome and carthage -- The Russian Eurasian empire -- Sacral geography : Dugin the ' ngian' analyst -- The wheel of the third Rome : the sole modus vivendi -- Dugin's symphony of geopolitics and 'Theology' -- Moscow as Katechon -- Messianism -- The catastrophic schism -- Peter i seals the fate of the third rome : temporarily -- The transcendental third Rome -- The Bolshevik restoration of the third Rome -- The ethics of the third Rome : thou shalt kill -- The future of the third Rome -- Nataliia Narochnitskaia : inverting the myth -- Narochnitskaia's Weltanschauung -- A moral view of history -- The idea of rome and its perversion in the west -- Orthodoxy : true third Rome -- Heresy : false third Rome -- The geopolitical dimension : the 'eastern question' -- The use of the third Rome : western temptations -- Ahistorical historiography -- Conclusions : inversion of the third Rome Myth -- Egor Kholmogorov : bridgehead in heaven -- Centripetal Russia -- The third Rome : the only empire -- Proactive conservatism : bonesetting Russia -- Restoring Russia's future by sensocratic means -- Russification of a geopolitical myth -- Autogenous autocracy : autogenous third Rome? -- Total mobilization -- Nuclear bombs and Russian saints -- A bridgehead in heaven -- The uses of the political myth of the third Rome -- Defining who is Russian -- Defining the boundaries of the Russian state as they 'should' be -- Foundation myth -- Continuity : past : present : future : end of time -- Moral prerogative -- The importance of orthodoxy -- Russian 'Uniqueness' -- A 'Military mission'? -- The status of the political myth of the third Rome -- Epilogue : entering the mainstream -- Views on the Ukrainian crisis -- The myth of the third Rome and the Ukrainian crisis -- Bibliography