Monthly Archives: July 2009

Вторая Великая Депрессия

This article is reposted from my LJ blog and summarizes my views on the global economic crisis: its origins, current developments and likely future consequences. I hope to have a more detailed English-language version up soon. 1. Этот кризис очень … Continue reading

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The Belief Matrix

Consequent to my post Categorizing the Russia Debate and the lively debate it spawned, it occurred to me that much of Russia’s tortured and intriguing history could be rationalized as a self-reinforcing loop within a belief matrix. This can even … Continue reading

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Review of “America Alone” (M. Steyn)

Steyn, Mark – America Alone: The End of the World as we Know It (2006) Category: Islam; Eurabia; humor; Rating: 3/5 Summary: The future belongs to Islam (M. Steyn) It crept up on the West silently. Even as (apparently) post-historical … Continue reading

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Categorizing the Russia Debate

Here I will try to categorize all the major Russia-watching schools along two axes: 1) a Russophobe – Russophile axis and 2) a values spectrum on attitudes towards the West as a universal mental matrix. Along these lines I created … Continue reading

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Review of “The Prodigal Superpower” (S. Rosefielde)

Rosefielde, Steven – Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower (2004) Category: political economy, Russia, transition, military; Rating: 4/5 Summary: Google books; Introduction This is a book about Russia’s past, and its alleged return to the future. Rosefielde outlines … Continue reading

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Top 50 Russophobe Myths

This is a list of common Russophobe myths about Russia and its people, and the successor to a March 2008 post on a similar theme. Please be sure to check the supporting notes at the bottom before dismissing this as neo-Soviet … Continue reading

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