And of course, we must give credit to the author for the extensive research done and for practical application of the cyclical and modular view of history to specific Russian realities.
The results are impressive, the presented concept is coherent, convincing, and it can definitely be applied to further research on the other historical periods as well.
Wow, what a huge research and definitely an underrepresented topic in mainstream history and media. Very few realize what "russia" really is as an entity, from beginning to a (potential) end.
Interesting thought here - "The entity once celebrated as “Russian Culture” is undergoing a process of negation." Do you think russian culture and russia as an entity is on the path of falling apart? How do you think it could look like?
I remember that I've watched a documentary about American reaction to the fall of Soviet Union. I was surprised to learn that Bush strongly opposed the independence of Ukraine and Belarus and encouraged us to "stay with russia" as much as possible. And then I realized the root of it: American desire to have stable control over the region and its nuclear potential. Let's say Soviet Union falls apart forming multiple states - how will it divide its nuclear weapon potential? I fear that this is also the reason why the West right now is so active with "let's not escalate" narrative. If russia actually falls apart into multiple independent states, it would be much tougher to control the nuclear potential of each of them. So I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on it.
Thank you for your comment! By that particular sentence I mean that what is referred to as "Russian Culture" is an artificial creation alien to the Russian people. This phenomenon like that of "Carolingian Renaissance" is proving to be a fleeting phenomenon due to both of them being essentially the products of foreign impositions on a populace that was alien to the corresponding cultural forms.
And yes, the Russian realm will also enter its own stage of nation formation, like medieval Europe, where with time different nations emerged out of Charlemagne's empire - Germany, France, Italy etc. The equivalent units of these European nations will be Siberians, Uralians, Ingrians etc.
Also, regarding the West, and in particular US, being against the disintegration of Russia, this is where Ukraine and Eastern Europe at large will need to take initiative. Because at the end of the day Western powers will oppose it and Ukraine, just like now, will inevitably be faced with Western intransigence.
The prerequisite for overcoming that intransigence is acquiring one's own agency. This is imperative. And I see Ukraine on the right path and am very optimistic about its future. Ukraine will not only emerge free from this war, but more importantly - stronger! And Ukraine is making great strides: its own wonderful drones, the recent missile-drone Palyanytsya, soon its own long-range missiles Neptune and Sapsan, and hopefully, hopefully... its own nuclear weapons - i.e., getting back what was stolen from it. Having own agency necessitates having one's own strong army and military-industrial complex.
Although the West is clearly the true ally and friend of Ukraine, there will inevitably be some disagreements in the future between Eastern Europe and Western powers. Like differing approaches to tackling Russia or differing views on Third World migration. One is reminded of how Poland has been pressured by the EU regarding that latter issue, for instance. I really hope Eastern Europe will be strong enough not remain simply as a follower on these matters, but become a trendsetter.
Earlier I wrote articles about this particular issue as well. Maybe you have seen them already. If not, I invite you to have a look at them when you have time:
Very interesting! One element that is underplayed but that I think may play a role - unlike other cultures that lay in opposition to the West, ethnic Russians are white. I can’t help but wonder if this presents a barrier to Western observers understanding that European (Faustian?) culture is not native to Russia. I.e., it is harder to intuit that a white polity does not share default Western values & perspectives.
Precisely! That's my thinking too. Another example could be the treatment of ancient Greeks and Romans as an integral part of European Civilization, because they were also white. However, as Oswald Spengler astutely observed, Classical Graeco-Roman cultural realm was quite distinct from the culture that emerged in north-western & central Europe centuries later. Thus those two cannot be treated as parts of the same culture either.
…you need to be born and live there to understand what you are puzzled by, that country is so twisted throughout the history and trying to catch up the west just by copying (literally) everything from it without any real practical use of it, they never leveled with it, so “cultural thinking” is - fuck you were don’t need you, everything we tried from you is not working for us and we are better then you, it’s not pride it’s hubris, and after 1917 shit was really went “where nobody went before”
…for me culture is not “the past history” it’s what it achieves and progress throughout time and how it change in treating each other and others in its society
Once again, beautiful and powerful paper on Spengler’s conception of cultural pseudomorphosis in Russia, and the rarely mentioned case of Faustian civilization itself. Although I do not agree with your conclusion, as always due to our different political commitments, nevertheless, well done.
That said, I have a comment concerning the formation of nations, despite the plurality of nations within Russia as a whole, and some that belong in what we call “cultural boundaries”. Spengler argued that even though nations form, the division of civilizations appears in a different form in each civilization. The imposing of nation states based on ethnicity, is in itself a pseudomorphosis, Russia’s multinational federation is based on modern political paradigms. In Magian civilization, or the Islamic world, it was based on creed, religion, Christians, Jews, Druze etc. In India it is also unique, China as well. Each cultural possess a different form. The form in Russia would be different as well in that case. Thus as a pseudomorphosis is lifted, we could argue that nations on the periphery who are incongruent to the new manifestation of Russia would detach. But within Russia it would be a different case, the emergence of the Russian form of civilizational internal division and units. In other words if secession occurs in all of Russia today it is essentially due to the continuation of exacerbation of the pseudomorphic effect, through Western political instruments of expansion.
Yes, the "nations" within the post-Russian space will likely be formed differently and be based on parameters different from those in the Western (Faustian) World. But that will be a topic for another discussion. It would have been to much to include it in this article.
This Spengler's view on history explains a lot.
And of course, we must give credit to the author for the extensive research done and for practical application of the cyclical and modular view of history to specific Russian realities.
The results are impressive, the presented concept is coherent, convincing, and it can definitely be applied to further research on the other historical periods as well.
Thank you for your comment and your assessments. Appreciate it. I aim to write more on this topic and elaborate further.
Wow, what a huge research and definitely an underrepresented topic in mainstream history and media. Very few realize what "russia" really is as an entity, from beginning to a (potential) end.
Interesting thought here - "The entity once celebrated as “Russian Culture” is undergoing a process of negation." Do you think russian culture and russia as an entity is on the path of falling apart? How do you think it could look like?
I remember that I've watched a documentary about American reaction to the fall of Soviet Union. I was surprised to learn that Bush strongly opposed the independence of Ukraine and Belarus and encouraged us to "stay with russia" as much as possible. And then I realized the root of it: American desire to have stable control over the region and its nuclear potential. Let's say Soviet Union falls apart forming multiple states - how will it divide its nuclear weapon potential? I fear that this is also the reason why the West right now is so active with "let's not escalate" narrative. If russia actually falls apart into multiple independent states, it would be much tougher to control the nuclear potential of each of them. So I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on it.
Thank you for your comment! By that particular sentence I mean that what is referred to as "Russian Culture" is an artificial creation alien to the Russian people. This phenomenon like that of "Carolingian Renaissance" is proving to be a fleeting phenomenon due to both of them being essentially the products of foreign impositions on a populace that was alien to the corresponding cultural forms.
And yes, the Russian realm will also enter its own stage of nation formation, like medieval Europe, where with time different nations emerged out of Charlemagne's empire - Germany, France, Italy etc. The equivalent units of these European nations will be Siberians, Uralians, Ingrians etc.
Also, regarding the West, and in particular US, being against the disintegration of Russia, this is where Ukraine and Eastern Europe at large will need to take initiative. Because at the end of the day Western powers will oppose it and Ukraine, just like now, will inevitably be faced with Western intransigence.
The prerequisite for overcoming that intransigence is acquiring one's own agency. This is imperative. And I see Ukraine on the right path and am very optimistic about its future. Ukraine will not only emerge free from this war, but more importantly - stronger! And Ukraine is making great strides: its own wonderful drones, the recent missile-drone Palyanytsya, soon its own long-range missiles Neptune and Sapsan, and hopefully, hopefully... its own nuclear weapons - i.e., getting back what was stolen from it. Having own agency necessitates having one's own strong army and military-industrial complex.
Although the West is clearly the true ally and friend of Ukraine, there will inevitably be some disagreements in the future between Eastern Europe and Western powers. Like differing approaches to tackling Russia or differing views on Third World migration. One is reminded of how Poland has been pressured by the EU regarding that latter issue, for instance. I really hope Eastern Europe will be strong enough not remain simply as a follower on these matters, but become a trendsetter.
Earlier I wrote articles about this particular issue as well. Maybe you have seen them already. If not, I invite you to have a look at them when you have time:
https://cemilk.substack.com/p/baltic-black-sea-union-intermarium
https://cemilk.substack.com/p/intermarium-as-the-most-viable-model
…”russian culture” IS SOVIET “culture” and now it’s a mafia state culture as a continuation of soviet one
Very interesting! One element that is underplayed but that I think may play a role - unlike other cultures that lay in opposition to the West, ethnic Russians are white. I can’t help but wonder if this presents a barrier to Western observers understanding that European (Faustian?) culture is not native to Russia. I.e., it is harder to intuit that a white polity does not share default Western values & perspectives.
Precisely! That's my thinking too. Another example could be the treatment of ancient Greeks and Romans as an integral part of European Civilization, because they were also white. However, as Oswald Spengler astutely observed, Classical Graeco-Roman cultural realm was quite distinct from the culture that emerged in north-western & central Europe centuries later. Thus those two cannot be treated as parts of the same culture either.
…Pushkin was black
I don't think you should look at this topic through a black/white lens. It doesn't work here.
…you need to be born and live there to understand what you are puzzled by, that country is so twisted throughout the history and trying to catch up the west just by copying (literally) everything from it without any real practical use of it, they never leveled with it, so “cultural thinking” is - fuck you were don’t need you, everything we tried from you is not working for us and we are better then you, it’s not pride it’s hubris, and after 1917 shit was really went “where nobody went before”
…for me culture is not “the past history” it’s what it achieves and progress throughout time and how it change in treating each other and others in its society
Once again, beautiful and powerful paper on Spengler’s conception of cultural pseudomorphosis in Russia, and the rarely mentioned case of Faustian civilization itself. Although I do not agree with your conclusion, as always due to our different political commitments, nevertheless, well done.
That said, I have a comment concerning the formation of nations, despite the plurality of nations within Russia as a whole, and some that belong in what we call “cultural boundaries”. Spengler argued that even though nations form, the division of civilizations appears in a different form in each civilization. The imposing of nation states based on ethnicity, is in itself a pseudomorphosis, Russia’s multinational federation is based on modern political paradigms. In Magian civilization, or the Islamic world, it was based on creed, religion, Christians, Jews, Druze etc. In India it is also unique, China as well. Each cultural possess a different form. The form in Russia would be different as well in that case. Thus as a pseudomorphosis is lifted, we could argue that nations on the periphery who are incongruent to the new manifestation of Russia would detach. But within Russia it would be a different case, the emergence of the Russian form of civilizational internal division and units. In other words if secession occurs in all of Russia today it is essentially due to the continuation of exacerbation of the pseudomorphic effect, through Western political instruments of expansion.
Yes, the "nations" within the post-Russian space will likely be formed differently and be based on parameters different from those in the Western (Faustian) World. But that will be a topic for another discussion. It would have been to much to include it in this article.