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irrussianality irrussianality search primary menu skip to content home about books articles videos russian defeatism search for uncategorized keir starmer and the crisis in britain june 25 2026 paulr 2 comments after a break of several months i have returned to the pages of canadian dimension magazine this time with an article commenting on the resignation of british prime minister keith starmer you can read it here share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading keir starmer united kingdom russian defeatism herzen and the defeatist june 5 2026 paulr 3 comments aeons ago when the cold war was still waging and i was an undergraduate student at merton college oxford the college chaplain mark everitt who doubled as tutor of russian language had me read the memoirs of the famous russian populist revolutionary alexander herzen 1812 1870 in his opinion herzen was not just an important historical figure but also a great writer and his memoirs were possibly the finest work in the canon of russian literature alexander herzen i haven t had much cause to look at them since but have recently done so as part of my project on russian defeatism was herzen a defeatist and what was his position regarding the crimean war of 1853 56 the answer is to be found in a chapter he wrote about his relationship with a fellow russian emigre by the name of vladimir arestovich engelson vladimir engelson continue reading herzen and the defeatist share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading alexander herzen crimean war history russia vladimir engelson philosophy video gaggling russian civilizationism june 4 2026 paulr 4 comments yesterday i had a chat with george szamuely and peter lavelle for the gaggle on the topic of my latest book russian civilizationism i think that the result is an intellectually stimulating discussion you can watch it here share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading political philosophy russian civilizationism russian defeatism there are no good russians may 24 2026 paulr 17 comments next in my publication of specimens of defeatist russian thinking is a poem published last week by well known russian emigre writer dmitry bykov the russian version comes first followed by a translation with footnotes in 2025 bykov was added to the russian government s list of terrorists and extremists and sentenced in absentia to seven years in prison for allegedly spreading fake news about the russian armed forces and failing to carry out the obligations of someone designated a foreign agent here is the poem continue reading there are no good russians share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading dmitry bykov russian defeatism misopatria and the patriotic transformation of yuliia latynina may 20 2026 paulr 2 comments in a previous post about russian defeatism i divided the russian émigré opposition into two main factions on the one hand there is a group centred on the free russian forum led by mikhail khodorkovsky this is quite open about its desire to see russia defeated in its war in ukraine on the other hand there are the supporters of the late aleksei navalny centred on the anti corruption whose initials in russian are fbk these are less ostentatiously defeatist perhaps because they consider a defeatist position to be politically unwise however recent allegations by russian video blogger ilya varlamov cast some doubt on this classification if varlamov is to be believed the navalnyites are in reality just as defeatist as the khodorkovskyites even if publicly they by and large keep quiet about it there is no way of telling if varlamov s claims are true émigré politics can be quite vicious and the navalnyites have lots of enemies among fellow émigré oppositionists so this could be fabricated to blacken their name still the allegations and the reactions to them are worth investigating as part of my general research into the phenomenon of russian defeatism i learnt of the allegations via the x account of well known russian liberal media commentor yuliia latynina as part of my research project i have promised to publish on this account copies of interesting documents concerning russian defeatism both in the original russian and in translation so here is what latynina had to say continue reading misopatria and the patriotic transformation of yuliia latynina share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading defeatism fbk politics russia ukraine yuliia latynina uncategorized richard pipe s memorial conference april 14 2026 paulr leave a comment as previously mentioned i will be presenting a paper on friday this week at a conference in chicago in memory of richard pipes below are details of the conference it will be broadcast live online so if you wish to attend zoom links for the two days are also provided below day 1 richard pipes conference time apr 16 2026 4 00pm central time us and canada https uic zoom us j 82124058809 pwd bmkkpfjfwl39besajcgx3hfwymd6ie 1 meeting id 821 2405 8809 passcode zsulsv1e day 2 richard pipes conference time apr 17 2026 10 00am central time us and canada https uic zoom us j 87580477391 pwd 0eiazwavmyar5vln4zeubkgy8kg13k 1 meeting id 875 8047 7391 passcode 0rqpsqmt we ask those attending via zoom to please register using the link below so we can reach them with any updates or technical information we also ask that all in person attendees register in advance https huminst uic edu events the richard pipes memorial conference the state of the russian history field share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading russian defeatism russian defeatism project april 2 2026 paulr 13 comments i have had the good fortune recently to receive a grant from the social sciences and humanities research council of canada to undertake research into the topic of russian defeatism the project should last 3 years and will be undertaken in collaboration with dr oleg beyda of the university of melbourne author of the recent book for russia with hitler white russian emigres and the german soviet war as part of the project i plan to use this website to make the products of our research available to the general public to this end i have created a separate category for posts on the subject russian defeatism and also created a page within this website with the same title you should be able to see it in the menu in the bar above this post all relevant materials should then appear if you click on that menu the plan is to post in it things such as copies and translations of interesting documents that we discover copies of conference papers and the like so that readers of irrussianality can have some idea of what the project entails below is a much shortened version of the detailed description that went with my grant application while it leaves some things out for the sake of brevity it should give you a sense of what we plan to do continue reading russian defeatism project share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading collaboration defeatism history russia war philosophy political theory issues of identity march 9 2026 paulr 12 comments some are born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them william shakespeare one might say the same about identity you are born with one and over time you acquire another one due to what you do but it s not a matter that s entirely in your control your identity is thrust upon you also you might not want to be x or y but if others insist on treating you as such there s a good chance that sooner or later you ll be obliged to accept that identity as your own for instance i once watched a documentary about a village in bosnia in the 1990s the anthropologist film maker showed how the local croats and muslims got on very well but as the croatian army approached they began to separate the croat villagers wanted to mark themselves out as croat so that when the croatian army arrived it didn t attack them or accuse them of collaboration with the enemy abandoned by their former friends the muslims had no choice but to self identify as members of the same group and take collective measures for their own defence identity was as it were thrust upon them i mention all this in relation to a presentation i will be giving next month at a conference in chicago that is being held in commemoration of the historian of things russian richard pipes as part of this i have been asked to prepare something on one of the topics that pipes wrote about namely russian conservatism and this is what i have been doing over the past few weeks continue reading issues of identity share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading national identity political theory russia russia western relations uncategorized latest articles january 25 2026 paulr leave a comment a couple of articles by me have appeared in print this week the first contains my thoughts on canadian prime minister mark carney s speech announcing the death of the rules based international order you can find it on the website of canadian dimension magazine here the second is rather more substantive and is an academic article titled rights and freedoms in the thought of ivan ilyin it is available free online in northwestern university studies in russian philosophy literature and religious thought you can read it along with other articles in the journal here as always your comments and thoughts on my work are appreciated share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading canada ivan ilyin philosophy rules based international order russia russian defeatism émigré shenanigans january 22 2026 paulr 4 comments oh those russians boney m as i mentioned in my last post there has been some bitter infighting in recent months among the ranks of russian émigrés some of these people have the ear of western politicians and so are not entirely unimportant therefore while these émigré shenanigans may appear to be the pointless squabbles of the powerless it s worth taking a look at them so here goes continue reading émigré shenanigans share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new 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