Abstract

MAKARYCHEV, Andrey S.. Russia, Europe and the legacy of 1989: conflicts of interpretation. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2009, n.23, pp.53-74. ISSN 1645-9199.

In this paper, I will examine a number of most notorious examples of Russia's conflictual relations with adjacent post-Soviet states like Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine. I will then extend my analysis to Russia's controversial relations with Great Britain and NATO, and conclude by referring to the case of the Kaliningrad oblast. In my judgment, all these cases demonstrate how uneasy is the overcoming of the Soviet heritage in Russia's foreign policy and what kind of collisions the inevitable reactualization of this heritage might entail.

Keywords : Russia; USSR; Europe; communism.

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