Universal Roman pretentions continued after the fall of the Tsars but, unlike Hitler in Germany, the Communists Lenin and Stalin, however tsar-like their power, wished to owe no debt or acknowledge any continuity to the ideology of the earlier empire. The Soviet Union was no successor to ...
“true essence and task” of Ukrainian nationhood was to become an “in-dividuation of a Common-Russian (obshcherusskoi) culture”, while of course re-taining its ethnographic individuality at the same time21. By implication, however,the relationship of all of the former empire’s ...
The second block spans approximately a thousand years from the fall of the Roman Empire to the discovery of the Americas. Europe and Asia, Knights and Samurai, Scandinavian sagas and eastern tales, pre-Columbian America and the birth of Islam, the legends of the Knights of the Round Table, ...
Having finished his survey of Putin’s speeches, Eltchaninoff comes to the conclusion that, ‘The philosophical sources of Putinism, however diverse they may be, all rest on two pillars: the idea of empire and an apology for war. This is the common core of Sovietism, Ilyin’s ‘White’...
imports from the Byzantine Empire or its colonies on the Black Sea, while the ‘overseas merchandise’, which is also mentioned in the letter, refers to products from North-Western Europe, presumably those which arrived via the Baltic sea (the default ‘sea’ in Old Novgorodian texts). It ...
Turkic language contact has a long history with Dungan and likely predates the Dungan westward migrations into the Russian Empire. On the other hand, the intensification of language contact with Russian in its full magnitude is a more recent phenomenon. During the Soviet era, the Dungans were ...
In this respect, the church of an empire has not reconciled itself to being the church of a nation-state (just as Moscow has not relinquished its insistence on maintaining a privileged sphere of influence in the post-Soviet space), even though the post-Soviet ROC has progressively come to ...