Lenin gives a speech before his mausoleum, while Stalin burns with red-hot envy. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Constantin Philippoff / Flickr. Some rights reserved.
This is the second in a series of essays by Kirill Kobrin on the death of the post-Soviet project. Read part one here. Stay with us for further installments.
Soviet ideology didn’t so much transform as gradually fade away. After all, ideology is never an add-on – it is something that precedes political practice, defining its direction and discourse. It leaves its print on the slightest gesture by rulers and on every response from the ruled.
