On the Periphery: The Balkans in Contemporary Russian History
Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2018

This chapter analyses the portrayal of the Balkans in contemporary Russian history and its impact on Russia’s relationship in the region. There have been attempts to create a unifying European history to promote peace, security and a wider European identity since the collapse of communism in Europe. However, the Russian state has been cast unfavorably in the new Eastern European histories. This has caused friction in foreign affairs and seen attacks on the Russian historical narrative. By contra