Endgame of the Long Cold War
... of national independence and democracy that it once wielded, and urged the Communists to pick it up. In a dialectical inversion, in recent years the word ‘Revolution’ has been abandoned by those who once wielded it and has been picked up by the West and deployed in the service of a hegemonic global project. With the heritage of the Russian Revolution abandoned or allowed to lapse, only the American and French democratic Revolutions are still invoked and weaponized. While there is a widespread historical rehabilitation of Stalin—a necessary rebalancing and corrective—it is ironic that the father and founder figure of the modern Russian ...