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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: stalin
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
34 Comments
Sublime News #7
1. The Moscow terakts. Frankly, there is little point to me adding more to the excellent coverage / meta-commentary provided by Mark Adomanis (1, 2, 3), Sean Guillory (1, 2, 3, 4), A Good Treaty (1, 2), Leos Tomicek (1), … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime News
Tagged economy, geoengineering, germany, greece, history, iraq, liberasty, life, military, north korea, nuclear, poland, resource depletion, russia, russophobes, serbia, stalin, terrorism, uk, venezuela, water, western hypocrisy, western media
26 Comments
Lessons from Byzantium
I finally watched the film Гибель Империи. Византийский урок (Death of an Empire: the Byzantine Lesson), narrated by Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov, the father-confessor of Vladimir Putin. This film takes a stylized interpretation of the decline and fall of the Byzantine Empire … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged collapse, corruption, culture, history, imperialism, islam, liberasty, morale, politics, review, russia, russians, russophobes, stalin, video, western hypocrisy
4 Comments
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
3 Comments
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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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
3 Comments
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
8 Comments
The Nazi-Soviet Pact as Second Munich
On the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of non-aggression between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, signed on August 23, 1939 (also my birthday!), historians, ideologues and everyone in between inevitably fall into a game of recriminations, revisionism and … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged baltics, france, history, human rights, international relations, poland, politics, russophobes, soviet union, stalin, uk, visegrad, western hypocrisy, western media
65 Comments
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
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged baltics, chechnya, china, communism, core article, culture, economy, geopolitics, georgia, history, human rights, international relations, kosovo, liberasty, medvedev, military, morale, opinion poll, putin, russians, russophobes, serbia, soviet union, stalin, ukraine, visegrad, western hypocrisy, western media
44 Comments
Manipulating Russia’s Manipulation of History
This is a summary of my views on the controversy surrounding the “Stalinist” Russian history textbooks, with the translation of the most offending chapter in question given here. This was originally published at Johnson’s Russia List. Manipulating Russia’s Manipulation of … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged history, human rights, russians, russophobes, soviet union, stalin, visegrad, western hypocrisy, western media
22 Comments