Phil reviewed Черный ветер, белый снег by Charles Clover
I wasn’t as angry as I was exhausted by all this.
1 star
Charles Clover’s Black Wind, White Snow is of course a good example how liberals are in owe of fascisms, but hey, it’s also poor researched!
Clover says he interviewed a lot of Nazbols, it seems like they instilled their ideas of Russian history in him (deterministic and stripped of reasoning). It overlaps with him trying to fit rich Amerikkan political lore over Russia, regardless of the era: “deep state”, “culture wars”, and “orthodox Marxism” (meaning some unified Soviet ideology) are regularly mentioned.
Book promises to explain phenomenon of “Russkiy mir” through the stories of political activism of Russian émigrés, Liev Gumilyov (one “spontaneous anarchist”!), and Alexandr Dugin. They all happen to be vewy cuwious chawactews, vewy talented, but twoubled intewectchuals, who fall for bigotwy and antisemitism by mewe accident. Also, they are all like Dostoyevsky in one way or another (it’s hard to portray Nikita Tikhonov as Dostoevsky, but Clover …
Charles Clover’s Black Wind, White Snow is of course a good example how liberals are in owe of fascisms, but hey, it’s also poor researched!
Clover says he interviewed a lot of Nazbols, it seems like they instilled their ideas of Russian history in him (deterministic and stripped of reasoning). It overlaps with him trying to fit rich Amerikkan political lore over Russia, regardless of the era: “deep state”, “culture wars”, and “orthodox Marxism” (meaning some unified Soviet ideology) are regularly mentioned.
Book promises to explain phenomenon of “Russkiy mir” through the stories of political activism of Russian émigrés, Liev Gumilyov (one “spontaneous anarchist”!), and Alexandr Dugin. They all happen to be vewy cuwious chawactews, vewy talented, but twoubled intewectchuals, who fall for bigotwy and antisemitism by mewe accident. Also, they are all like Dostoyevsky in one way or another (it’s hard to portray Nikita Tikhonov as Dostoevsky, but Clover solves the situation by saying he’s like Raskolnikov!)