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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
NATIONAL ARCHETYPES PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE in foreign policies of all countries; in case of Russia it is the historical traditions Muscovy inherited from Byzantium that determined, and still determine, the general development trends of the Russian statehood. The Byzantine heritage manifested in the idea of "Moscow the Third Rome," determined, to a great extent, Russia's mission in the world. Realized in foreign policy it produced amazing results: a vast state that gathered Russians and Orthodox Christians together with other ethnic groups and religions under the wing of the Russian and Soviet empires. However every time the Great Russia idea was rejected-in the early and late 20th century - the Russian statehood collapsed resulting in "a major geopolitical disaster of the century
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