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Category Archives: Da Russophile
Defending the Loop
Following my posting of Russia’s Sisyphean Loop, the influential East-Central Europe expert, Vlad Sobell, wrote up an interesting critique at the Untimely Thoughts Russia Discussion Group. It addresses what may be considered some weak, or at least not thoroughly explained, points from the original article, so I thought it would be useful to reproduce it [...]
Also posted in Sublime Oblivion Tagged authoritarianism, climate change, collapse, energy, guest, history, philosophy, Russia Resources, vision 4 Comments
Russia’s Sisyphean Loop
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Russia’s Sisyphean Loop
The Eternal Return to the Future?
In this article I attempt to explain Russia’s historical cycles of failed Westernization and to project its future socio-political trajectory. First, I note the nature of and linkages between Russia’s geography, cultural traditions and imperial cycles. Second, using a ‘Belief Matrix’ [...]
Also posted in Sublime Oblivion Tagged authoritarianism, communism, core article, corruption, culture, demography, economy, geopolitics, history, imperialism, jews, liberasm, medvedev, military, morale, poland, putin, resource depletion, Russia Resources, russians, soviet union, stalin, vision, western hypocrisy, western media 5 Comments
Russia’s “Abortion Apocalypse”: А был ли мальчик?
Remember the hysterical stories back in winter 2009 about how Russia was going to see soaring abortions that would strip away all the “transient” improvements in its fertility rate over the last few years? Remember the glee this gave to Russophobes who saw it as a vindication of their criticisms / rantings against the Russian [...]
Posted in Da Russophile Tagged demography, guest, public health, russians, russophobes, western media 2 Comments
Soviet Resilience under Fire
Review of “Moscow War Diary” (A. Werth)
Werth, Alexander – Moscow War Diary (1942)
Category: history, Soviet Union, WW2; Rating: 4/5
On 22nd June 1941, the armed columns of Nazi Germany began rolling into Russia, heralding the start of the Great Patriotic War. For Alexander Werth, a correspondent for the British Sunday Times paper who had spent his childhood [...]
Posted in Da Russophile Tagged germany, history, human rights, military, morale, review, Russia Resources, russians, russophobes, soviet union, stalin, war 3 Comments
Russia’s Demographic Resilience II
As little as a few months ago, alarmist commentators were forecasting Russia’s demographic doom. They predicted a wave of abortions that would strip down its post-2006 fertility gains, and a prolonged period of fertility postponement that would have longterm effects deep into its dark Putinist future. Meanwhile, there would be a renewed pandemic of vodka [...]
The Struggle between Europe and Mankind
Though Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) remains more famous for his contributions to the field of linguistics, his other great achievement was as one of the founding fathers of the Eurasian movement. Riding on the dark wave of disillusionment sweeping the world in the wake of the First World War, he penned the seminal essay Europe and Man [...]
Also posted in Sublime Oblivion Tagged communism, corruption, culture, germany, human rights, imperialism, international relations, japan, liberasm, marxism, morale, philosophy, putin, russians, russophobes, vision, western hypocrisy 12 Comments
Lessons from Byzantium