How can conservatism be reconciled with cynicism?
The article deals with the problem of compatibility of applying two predicates to the contemporary Russian regime: conservative and cynical. This application is not obvious: conservatism is a defender of established and/or past norms and institutions, while cynicism opposes them and strongly favours...
| Publicado en: | Studies in East European Thought Vol. 78; no. 1/2; pp. 11 - 22 |
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