In the St. Petersburg art space mArs (Marsovo Pole, 3) on Wednesday, March 1, historian Daniil Kotsiubinsky will continue his story about the fatal cycles of Russian history. The event starts at 19:00.
At the sixteenth meeting, Daniil Kotsyubinsky will sum up the “dashing and deaf 90s” and answer the question that interests so many: was the “Putin era” an organic continuation of the “Yeltsin era” or became its complete negation.
It will also become clear whether post-Yeltsin Russia had a different option for further development than the one that ended up being inextricably linked with the name of President V.V. Putin and which should be conditionally characterized as “counter-reformist” and “state-restoration”.
Does the sharp rise in oil prices alone explain the fact that Putin entered the minds of so many Russians as the leader who managed to “raise Russia from its knees”?
Did Putin originally have, as many systemic Russian Westernizers — politicians, political scientists and public figures believed in the early 2000s — “liberal potential, which, unfortunately, was not realized because of the Yukos affair”? Or were such expectations phantom from the very beginning?
Why, during the 2000s, did the Russian Federation switch from the format of “no ties” meetings between the Russian president and Western leaders to the “Munich speech” and the subsequent growing cooling in relations with Europe and the United States? Who initiated the negative evolution of these relations – the Russian Federation or the NATO countries?
Have Putin had failures in domestic politics, and if so, why did they not lead to a fall in his legitimacy?
Why did the entire Russian opposition during all the years of V.V. Putin demonstrated constant impotence, eventually losing any influence in society? Why did the Kremlin in the 2000s always win in any clash with any internal opponents?
Whose stable autocratic experience was most “repeated” by Putin – Peter I, Alexander III, Nicholas I or Catherine II?
In a word, has Putin managed to solve the super-task that has been facing the Russian authorities throughout all the centuries of Russian history, I – has he become a “real autocrat”? And did he achieve the secret Russian super-goal – was he able to force the West to recognize the first-class status of the Russian power and, most importantly, did he manage to force the West to “reckon with Russia”, that is, to adjust the entire international agenda in accordance with it?
The guests of Kvartirnik will learn about all this.
Tickets can be purchased on TimePad or in advance of the event.
Source: Rosbalt
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