“Many did not understand that 30 years were not a term, that the empire has not yet broken up”: an interview with historian Andrei Zorin
A specialist in the state ideology of the Russian Empire - on the cult of war as a public consensus. Is there a holistic ideology in modern Russia? What is the difference between a colonial war and the split of the metropolis? What role does Crimea play in the imperial myth and what is political mythology?