Historical echoes of the Ukraine war
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The History of the Russian and Soviet Succession
What we see in 1917 is a beginning of the processes that continue today. The Russian Empire was saved by the Bolsheviks who put it back stitched together with the help of internationalist ideology and by making concessions to nationalities. These are events with a huge afterlife, a huge century spanning afterlife. So again, I'm hopeful that this is this war will be a final chapter or one of the final chapters but knowing the history of other empires and what happens in that post-imperial space, I'm not really rushing to conclude that it is the final chapter.
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