The ideology of Russia's rulers in 1995: Westernizers and Eurasians.

From: Monthly Review | Date: October 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Economic and sociopolitical conditions in post-communist Russia are in steep decline, which has given rise to two competing ideologies: the nationalistic Eurasianism and the more democratic Westernism. Westernism has certain affinities with American neoconservatism.

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As Trotsky predicted in his analysis of Soviet society sixty years ago, the rejection of a planned economy has indeed resulted in profound economic and social regression on the territory of the former Soviet Union. The theoretical power of classical Marxism has been reconfirmed at a bitter price. While remaining a ...

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