Русия като черна кутия
Russia as a Black Box

Summary/Abstract: Today once again we should treat Russia as a black box. This is argued on the basis of the author’s personal encounters in Moscow and explained through a text by Ivan Ilyin. The roots of Russia’s return to political realism in foreign affairs are traced back to War and Peace by Tolstoy. An attempt is made to turn Blackbox Russia into a white box by analyzing the development of the Russian elite since the beginning of modern education, and tensions between the intelligentsia and the civil servants in the last two centuries. Russia’s perspectives to produce better governance in the near future are evaluated.

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