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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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