IRRUSSIANALITY

For my next installment of historical documents on the topic of Russian defeatism, I bring you several articles published in 1936 by the Russian émigré journalist and political philosopher Ivan Solonevich, shown here (at front) with his brother Boris and…

I recently had another discussion with Tafhim at Kianistan in London, England, on the topic of Ukraine, Iran, and the world more generally.

Today, I present another document from my research into the history of Russian defeatism.

After a break of several months, I have returned to the pages of Canadian Dimension magazine, this time with an article commenting on the resignation of British prime minister Keith Starmer.

Aeons ago, when the Cold War was still waging and I was an undergraduate student at Merton College, Oxford, the College chaplain Mark Everitt, who doubled as tutor of Russian language, had me read the memoirs of the famous Russian populist revolutionary A…

Yesterday I had a chat with George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle for The Gaggle on the topic of my latest book – Russian civilizationism.

Next in my publication of specimens of ‘defeatist’ Russian thinking is a poem published last week by well-known Russian emigre writer Dmitry Bykov.

In a previous post about Russian defeatism, I divided the Russian émigré opposition into two main factions.

As previously mentioned, I will be presenting a paper on Friday this week at a conference in Chicago in memory of Richard Pipes.

I have had the good fortune recently to receive a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to undertake research into the topic of Russian defeatism.