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Russian right-wing liberals and why they are disliked
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Russian right-wing liberals and why they are disliked

The term “liberalism” is a rather proud word, denoting a broad range of political and ...

What is racism and why is it harmful
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What is racism and why is it harmful

One of the fundamental progressive values is the equality of people regardless of their race ...

Right-wing and left-wing political movements
Right-wing and left-wing political movements

Today, even Time magazine notes that “right” and “left” are situational terms used depending on ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Constructed identities
Constructed identities

В dictionaries there is some confusion regarding the concepts of «patriotism», «nationalism», «Nazism», «racism», «fascism» ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

What is a propaganda machine and how does it work
What is a propaganda machine and how does it work

To be able to distinguish deception from truth, we must, among other things, examine the ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Who are conservatives
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Who are conservatives

The concept of conservatism still does not have clear boundaries, as noted by Pyotr Struve, ...

“The Bolsheviks started the Civil War”
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“The Bolsheviks started the Civil War”

A very widespread claim is that the Bolsheviks unleashed the Civil War in Russia, and ...

Yury Mukhin, the Falsifier
Yury Mukhin, the Falsifier

One of the pillars on which the Stalinist legendarium rests is the publicist Yury Mukhin. ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

The lies of Vladimir Putin and the russian nomenklatura
The lies of Vladimir Putin and the russian nomenklatura

In one of our articles, we already examined that Russia is governed by the nomenklatura ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

The City of the future from a social democratic perspective
The City of the future from a social democratic perspective

Of course, it is unlikely that, from the vantage point of the early twenty-first century, ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Short theses in propaganda practice
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Short theses in propaganda practice

While studying a specific issue for scientific purposes requires the most detailed consideration possible with ...

Why the death penalty must be banned
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Why the death penalty must be banned

If we reason superficially, drawing conclusions under the influence of fleeting emotions and anger, the ...

Direct or representative democracy?
Direct or representative democracy?

It is sometimes assumed that direct democracy is a more democratic, more “left-wing” system than ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Why planned economies are inefficient
Why planned economies are inefficient

Socialists, having achieved successes in some sectors of public life in Soviet Russia (and committing ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Privileges of the soviet nomenklatura
Privileges of the soviet nomenklatura

Thanks to the efforts of the remnants of the former propaganda apparatus of the Communist ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

Russia is still ruled by the nomenklatura
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Russia is still ruled by the nomenklatura

In today’s Russia, there is very little awareness that the nomenklatura created by Joseph Stalin, ...

Joseph Stalin’s coup d’état
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Joseph Stalin’s coup d’état

If someone had claimed back in 1922 that Joseph Stalin would become the leader of ...

Nomenklatura as a of exploiters
Nomenklatura as a class of exploiters

When jokes began to appear that “capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, and ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

“Nomenklatura privileges are not inherited”
“Nomenklatura privileges are not inherited”

Defenders of Stalin’s system of socialism often list among its supposed advantages the claim that ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov

What is the nomenklatura
What is the nomenklatura

In our view, the failure to acknowledge the shortcomings of the USSR or to justify ...

Abel Rodionov

Abel Rodionov