Thirty Years from the End of the USSR
C. C. Gourdon
The article contains a brief retrospective assessment of the reasons given by various scholars and observers for breakdown Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev’s leadership it situates that crisis in larger context history imperial legacy Russian state. It particularly looks at issue nationality as an ethnic, cultural linguistic concept vis-a-vis universalistic notion empire community destiny among diverse people. author compares Union’s structure ‘non classical’ to those other European states especially Germany’s which has also evolved from being loose Central East ‘Reich’ inspired Roman Carolingian heritage – becoming federal nation surrounded smaller countries share with ancient civilisational political legacy. Whereas Germany is gradually asserting many its former dependencies post-Brexit whole, Russia led geographical strategic compulsions rebuild Eurasian confederal association erstwhile Republics possessions Tsarist Empire, conformity location between ‘West’, Islamosphere Chinese world. Will be able create synthesis Slav Orthodox Oikoumene envisioned Nikolay Danilevsky syncretistic model promoted Lev Gumilyov?
Kontury globalʹnyh transformacij: politika, èkonomika, pravo