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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 trends under late Putinism as expressed by the Russian people themselves, rather than the limousine [...]
Posted in Da Russophile Also tagged authoritarianism, baltics, belarus, corruption, culture, economy, estonia, georgia, history, human rights, international relations, liberasm, medvedev, military, morale, opinion poll, politics, putin, Russia Resources, russians, russophobes, soviet union, ukraine 2 Comments
Interview @ Siberian Light
Posted in Da Russophile Also tagged collapse, core article, human rights, imperialism, interview, liberasm, life, me, morale, philosophy, politics, putin, rant, resource depletion, Russia Resources, russians, russophobes, singularity, soviet union, usa, western media Comments closed
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 – the root cause of which is attributed to mystical factors such as loss of faith [...]
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged collapse, corruption, culture, history, imperialism, islam, liberasm, morale, politics, review, Russia Resources, russians, russophobes, stalin, video 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’ [...]
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion Also 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 media 5 Comments
The Road to Economic Sovereignty
Review of “Kicking Away the Ladder” (H. Chang)
Chang, Ha-Joon – Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002)
Category: economy; history; industrial policy; Rating: 5/5
Summary: Kicking Away the Ladder:How the Economic and Intellectual Histories of Capitalism Have Been Re-Written to Justify Neo-Liberal Capitalism (Ha-Joon Chang)
Much has been said of the smug arrogance, cultural aloofness and [...]
Posted in Reviews Also tagged britain, china, corruption, economy, education, espionage, finance, france, germany, history, international relations, japan, review, Reviews, Russia Resources, sweden, usa 5 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged communism, corruption, culture, germany, human rights, imperialism, international relations, japan, liberasm, marxism, morale, philosophy, putin, russians, russophobes, vision 12 Comments
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