Russian idea

Journalist Andrei Kolesnikov ( entered by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents - Polit.ru ) writes in Foreign Affairs about archaic content, which acts as a central element of a new round of transformation of the Putin regime:

“Such a radical reorientation of the Russian state is not the first time. At least from the beginning of the 19th century, Russia has been going closer to rapprochement, then moved away from the West, hesitated between modern Western and reactionary-nationalist concepts of state power and an understanding of the place of Russia in the world. The same thing happened with Stalinism. 3 times over the past 70 years-under the power of Nikita Khrushchev between the 1950s and 1960, under Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s and under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s-Soviet and Russian leaders tried to save the country from Stalinist ideas and Stalinist discourse, but they returned, albeit in a softer form. Almost the entire 20th century, Russian political thinking was determined by the struggle between liberal and totalitarian trends, which can be called the struggle between the teninization and restalinization.

What is especially surprising about Putin's Russia is the degree of combination of restroittalization and anti -veimeune imperialism. Having revived some of the most radical versions of what was called the “Russian idea” in the 19th century ( a concept that originally contained the idea of ​​the peculiarities of the country's national development and extolled ethical and moral qualities, but in practice this began to designate a militarized expansionism ) Putin, resorting to the help of a dangerous ideological tradition in order to outline the current collections of the conflict in Ukraine and his vision of power ” .