Archiv des Monats: Februar 2026

One of the last articles Stalin ever read was A. A. Poletaev’s ‚V. I. Lenin and the American Workers Movement‘, published in a 1952 issue of Voprosy Istorii (Questions of History) devoted to Lenin. Poletaev’s article seems to have been … Weiterlesen →

Volodymyr Ishchenko in the New Statesman: The four years of the Russia-Ukraine war have laid bare a profound crisis of knowledge regarding Ukraine, Russia, the post-Soviet region and the world at large. This epistemological failure is manifest in the way … Weiterlesen →

In THX 1138 or Logan’s Run we are shown a 1970s depiction of a nightmarish future dystopia, but one from which it is possible to escape, a dystopia with tunnels which lead to some surface. Alas there are no such … Weiterlesen →

„But don’t trouble yourself here, Margarita. Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.“ —Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, (Penguin Books, Ltd., 1997), 382. This is certainly Bulgakov’s sensibility in The Master and Margarita. Was this … Weiterlesen →

Spiegel: Es sind Augenblicke, in denen deutlich wird: Hier stehen sich zwei Konzepte, zwei politische Ansätze gegenüber.