Tomorrow, September 4, the 12th edition of the Alternative and Left Festival in Šibenik – FALIŠ will begin. On the sec...
We're back from our vacation, with a new title from the Incus library. From Act to Acting. Jan Fabre’s Guidelines for t...
After Luan Starova, Venko Andonovski and Blaže Minewski, we bring you more from the Macedonian belles lettres, this ...
Ahead of publishing the book My Russia: War or Peace? by Mikhail Shishkin, a dissident and the greatest living Russian...
In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine? In My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin traces the roots of Russia's problems, from the 'Kievan Rus' via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation. He explores the uneasy relationship between state and citizens, explains Russian attitudes to people's rights and democracy, and proposes that there are really two Russian peoples: the disillusioned and disaffected, who suffer from 'slave mentality', and those who embrace 'European' values and t...
Ahead of publishinf Mikhail Shishkin's first book in TIM press, My Russia – War or Peace? the book of September is Shaun Walker's The Long Hangover. Walker is a historian specializing in the history of Eastern and Central Europe and was a longtime Russian correspondent for the Guardian and The Independent.
The Long Hangover maps Putin's mission of filling the void left by the downfall in 1991 and the building of a new national consciousness and patriotism in Russia. In a long and complex Russian history there was only one event that had a narrative potential for unification of the country and could serve as the cornerstone for the new nation - something that would contribute to the process of embedding the feeling of national pride. That event was the victory in the World War II or the Great Homeland War, as they still called it in modern Russia. Putin seems to have succeeded in Russia's consolidation, and has turned a weak and traumatized country into a key world player, but for how long?
