The paper explores how the flamboyantly thuggish behavior of the Putin regime in the international arena, the Cold War legacy, and the failures of the mainstream “diversity” ideology of the American establishment contributed the emergence of the paranoid narrative about the “Russian Collusion” in the US domestic politics between 2016 and 2021.…[Read more]

The paper explores the political and ideological evolution of the mainstream left thought collective in the West. Heavily influenced by the classical Marxian paradigm prior to the 1950s, this collective gradually shifted to the matters of culture and identity between the 1950s and the 1980s. In the left ideological paradigm, this transformation…[Read more]

This chapter explores the development of ethnicity and nationalism among Indigenous people of the Mountain Altai amid the fragmentation and collapse of the Russian Empire and the eventual ascent of the political religion of Bolshevism. Geographically, the Mountain Altai is an area in southwestern Siberia, which is located at the intersections of…[Read more]

This paper analyzes the emergence of ethnicity and nationalism among the indigenous people of the Altai Mountains in the late imperial and the early Soviet period. It is argued that the emergence of ethnic self-awareness of Altai people and the growth of nationalism among them originated from the following sources. First, it was the activities of…[Read more]

Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws” and inventing the proletariat—the “chosen p…[Read more]

This paper explores the life of Joseph Grigulevich (1913–1988), a famous early Soviet illegal intelligence operative, who conducted various “special tasks” on behalf of Stalin’s foreign espionage network. These included the murder of dissident Spanish communist Andreas Nin (1938), a participation in the assassination of Leon Trotsky (1940),…[Read more]