The Troika Rears its Head Once Again

... but quite realistic and pragmatic foreign policy. The time of ideological politics had arrived. Ideology was both an opportunity and a deadly threat for the new state. All the more so because the ideological boom, coupled with the rapid development of government institutions started to set the tone in the West. Nationalism, in all its manifestations, had become no less powerful than left-wing ideas. In the Soviet Union, the external threat was at times presented in a hypertrophied manner, which served, alongside other factors, to legitimize its power. ...