Epilogue: the rise of Slavic nationalisms and the collapse of transnational ideocracy

Since the completion of the first draft of this essay in 1989, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have undergone fundamental changes in their economy and polity, resulting in the complete de-Sovietization of the Slavic world. In this epilogue, I briefly examine the evidences for a cultural theory of nonWestern nationalism as applied to Slavic variations that, to a large extent, brought about the collapse of transnational ideocracy and the re-emergence of nation-states in its place.