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In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Tag Archives: soviet union
The Uncertain Future Of Cheap Russian Booze
One thing that strikes you, as you wander the shops of any Russian city, is the sheer cheapness of booze and cigs. As little as 3 years ago, one could buy a pint-sized bottle of beer or a pack of cigarettes for … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged alcohol, demography, finance, public health, putin, russia, smoking, soviet union
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Reconciling Stalin with Victory
За нас за вас и за десант и за спецназ! I would like to start off by expressing my deepest respects to the Red Army veterans who fought and died so that (literally) hundreds of millions of their Slavic brethren … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged history, human rights, marxism, philosophy, politics, putin, russia, russians, soviet union, stalin, ukraine, war
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Surviving Collapse Part 2
Having looked at Argentina’s mini-collapse in the early 2000′s, we will now turn to the classic modern case study of post-Soviet Russia, as recounted by Dmitry Orlov with my own commentary. Needless to say, as an emigrant from 1994 onwards, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, chaos, collapse, culture, economy, life, morale, russians, soviet union, usa, vision
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Voice of the People Part 3
This is a summary of opinion polls conducted by the Levada-Center, Russia’s Gallup, since February 2009, and continues from Part 1 and Part 2. Along with the original post Lovely Levada, this series constitutes a unique English-language reference for social … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged authoritarianism, baltics, belarus, corruption, culture, economy, estonia, georgia, history, human rights, international relations, liberasty, medvedev, military, morale, opinion poll, politics, putin, russia, russians, russophobes, soviet union, ukraine, western hypocrisy
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Interview @ Siberian Light
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged collapse, core article, human rights, imperialism, interview, liberasty, life, me, morale, philosophy, politics, putin, rant, resource depletion, russia, russians, russophobes, singularity, soviet union, usa, western hypocrisy, western media
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Zizek’s Metapolitics
Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s most brilliant philosophers. There’s no disputing that he sounds rambling and incoherent, but far from being off-putting, it forces one to consider (decipher?) his words all the more carefully. Indeed, the material and ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, communism, crime, culture, history, human rights, imperialism, marxism, matrix, philosophy, politics, singularity, soviet union, stalin, vision, western hypocrisy
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Russia’s Sisyphean Loop
Anatoly Karlin @ www.SublimeOblivion.com PDF version | DOC version 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, communism, core article, corruption, culture, demography, economy, geopolitics, history, imperialism, jews, liberasty, medvedev, military, morale, poland, putin, resource depletion, russia, russians, soviet union, stalin, vision, western hypocrisy, western media
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Thinking about Nuclear War
I have always been fascinated by nuclear war. Mountain bunkers, missile gaps, MAD, – what is there not to like? So this post will be devoted to the doomsday weapons which continue tantalizing us with visions of post-nuclear nirvana. Because yes, … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime Oblivion
Tagged economy, hi-tech, military, soviet union, space, technology, usa, war
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged germany, history, human rights, military, morale, review, russia, russians, russophobes, soviet union, stalin, war
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Fear and Fervor under Stalinist Industrialization
Review of “Behind the Urals” (J. Scott) Scott, John – Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel (1941) Category: history, Soviet Union, Stalin; Rating: 5/5 The Great Depression of the 1930’s, with its iconic images of well-dressed … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged authoritarianism, communism, culture, history, human rights, politics, review, russians, soviet union, stalin
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