“Export of the revolution. Saakashvili, Yushchenko ... ” - a book by Russian political scientist and publicist Sergei Kara-Murza and a group of co-authors (S. Telegin, A. Alexandrov, M. Murashkin), published in 2005 by Algorithm Publishing House. It was later reprinted under the title “Revolution for Export” by Eksmo Publishing House.
Kara-Murza examines the prerequisites for the emergence of " color revolutions ", the ways they are financed and organized, their social base. The book uses earlier articles on this subject by Rifat Shaikhutdinov , Mikhail Remizov , Yegor Kholmogorov , Alexei Chadayev . According to the author, this type of revolution of the postmodern era sharply differs from classical revolutions (national liberation, bourgeois or proletarian ). According to the author, “by the end of the 1980s, in the political practice of the United States and its allies, a new technology was developed and tested to purposefully destabilize and change power in various countries without direct violence (the so-called“ velvet ”revolutions) or with minimal use violence. " In conclusion, the prospects of the "orange revolution" in Russia are examined.
Reviews
Senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vadim Tsymbursky examines in detail the book of Kara-Murza and his co-authors [1] . Tsymbursky, in particular, notes:
I agree with the above authors who treat quasi-revolution in Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine as the geopolitical run-in of a new type of international legitimacy that meets the imperial construction of the current “united world”. True, I have to stipulate that I consider the technology of these revolutions to be a specific tool of geopolitics, a limitrophic one , which has shown its effectiveness on those inter-civilization sites where not only elites, but also a large part of the population are subject to a historical desire for “adoption” in Greater Europe. It is unlikely that such technology could succeed on civilization platforms in those societies where the authority of the Euro-Atlantic authorities is problematic and unstable (Iran, China, even Russia).
The philosopher V. A. Barsamov refers to the book in his article “Color Revolutions: Theoretical and Applied Aspects” ( Sociological Studies , 2006, No. 8) [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Tsymbursky V. Games of Sovereignty - 2 // Russian Journal , September 16, 2009
- ↑ Barsamov V. A. “Color revolutions”: theoretical and applied aspects // Sociological studies . 2006. No. 8. S. 57-66.
Links
- Book text
- Kara-Murza. How to grow a "flower" revolution? (inaccessible link)
- 2008 - will the US make the “orange” revolution in Russia? (unavailable link from 05/28/2013 [2290 days])
- S. G. Kara-Murza: A new “assembly” of people is coming (inaccessible link)
- Kuryanov Yury, “Book Showcase” (review)