“To keep North Eurasia under Moscow’s control, a centralized state is needed. A centralized state generates totalitarian propaganda. Totalitarian propaganda leads to external aggression, internal repression, and general collapse.
The abandonment of a centralized imperial state could transform the North Eurasian space into a network of new nation-states that would balance each other militarily, cooperate and compete economically, and participate in European or Asian integration projects.”
As long as Moscow controls the narrative, the control remains. But when that control weakens, historical memory becomes one of the most powerful tools of national self-determination. And that is why official historiography tries so hard to suppress it.
The publishing house Ibidem Press has announced the publication of the English version of our book. We expect the book to be on sale in the fall of 2025. The book will be published in the series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.
Until the West understands that Russia’s wars are not about territory but about meaning, about the restoration of metaphysical order, it will always underestimate the stakes. The West must stop treating Moscow’s imperial schizophrenia as a quirk. It is a strategic doctrine, with historical depth and apocalyptic ambitions.
They are heading for a great depression, and the speed of their progress depends on Ukraine and its allies. We must not give up or even allow Russian propaganda to penetrate the offices and minds of high-ranking officials of our allies. Unless the war stops, the Russian Federation has no way to get off this “carousel” without fatal losses compatible with scenarios of its collapse.
We are dealing with a phenomenon that is developing in our time continuum. Ruscism is being formed before our eyes (under the influence of internal and external circumstances) into a totalitarian regime with its own ideology. And it does so quite quickly.