ABSTRACT
A distinguished Russian philosopher has come forward who is finally determining the real contours of Russia’s modern collapse. He is Igor Chubais, brother of Anatoly Chubais, the famous senior Yeltsin minister, and he says that Russia will not work until it finds a “new identity” that allows it to make cultural peace inside itself between its past and its future. Igor Chubais wants Russia to set up a national institute to study the country’s history of czarist Orthodox autocracy and, in this century, collectivist communism. Without a new sense of identity for a new era, Chubais fears that a country too easily, even inexorably, slips into fascism. The West’s best economists had, with all the best intentions in the world, united with Western investors and Russian “reformers” to ruin the new Russia before it even started.
