Russia’s Way of Being in the World, from Yesterday to Tomorrow
... it systemic or merely sectional, were no longer served, it merely reneged on agreements. There was another matryoshka doll within the previous one. This one was illogical. The entire shift of paradigm was based on the assumption that the strength of socialism and the world correlation of forces was such that imperialism would not dare renege on its commitments and become openly warlike. The illogic was that basing itself on this assumption, Russia went on to cut back on its own strength and abandon the policies that had led to the favorable shift in the world correlation of forces. There were warnings. Molotov kept doing so, but he was laughed at as a diehard, the last of the holdouts, who ...
30.08.2019
