BTW, with respect to a previous post, what do you think "Russian nationalism" means nowadays? I like to distinguish between "russkii natsionalizm" and "rosiisskii nationalizm" (for non-Russophones, the Russian language differentiates between ethnic Russians -- russkii -- and peoples of Russia -- rosiisskii -- since Russia actually contains over 150 different peoples and languages, of which ethnic Russians are only 80%, the rest being Tatars, Chuvash, Ossetes, Avars, Chechens, Ingush, Chukchi, Cossacks, Yakuts etc). Clearly ethnicity or something like Orthodoxy can't count (once again for non-Russophones, the indigenous Russian religions are Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and various forms of shamanism practiced by Siberian peoples).
--- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chris, I think you broach an accidental breakthrough
> of sorts:
>
> "Solzhenitsyn is a Russian nationalist and a
> Slavophile (in addition to being a great man
> although
> I
> disagree with him 75% of the time). I doubt he
> thinks
> of himself as a "Western thinker.""
>
> Ditto, ditto and ditto.
>
> However, is it possible that there a different
> paradigm
> in play? Instead of accepting the Western experience
> lock-stock-and barrel, shouldn't we be hoping and
> expecting for (finally) a contemporary Russian
> version
> of Western liberalism? Clearly Solzhenitsyn is a
> strange midwife for this (ref to Joanna's recent
> post), but....
>
> I think, and call me crazy on this list, this is
> what
> Putin and Putinism is all about.
>
>
> --- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Solzhenitsyn is a Russian nationalist and a
> > Slavophile
> > (in addition to being a great man although I
> > disagree
> > with him 75% of the time). I doubt he thinks of
> > himself as a "Western thinker."
> >
> > Nu, zayats, pogodi!
> >
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