Understanding Russia: Nikolas K. Gvosdev, PhD

[@pitthistoryguy1301]

Russia / Putin's regime are described as a black box, a collection of characteristics with no insight on the how or why of their perspective. I attended many or Dr Joseph Wieczynski's Slavic History classes at Va Tech and am very interested.

[@Anilkumar-ze8po]

Amazing...thanks a tonne for this work.

[@justinmathews8507]

12 minutes in, and the lecture sounds like he has been reading off Russia's Wikipedia page.

[@michaelmeenan5522]

Awesome!

[@sophiaplastun8972]

In terms of Russia we always should remember that we are talking about archaic outdated society and economy with traditional mind rooted neglect of individual rights and interest and clear genocidal practices toward culture, traditions, languages of national groups. Look at Russian map in terms of population distribution and roads infrastructure - you will notice how easily can this “country” fall apart

[@bdnevins]

Great lecture. In this brief time, he did not address the failures of US policy regarding Latin America and Iran. These events were carried out "under the radar" of Congress and US voters. The agreed on policy of the voters and most of the government is that Japan, Germany, etc should govern their own affairs. This is quite different than the situation of the Warsaw pact nations during the Cold War, or of Belarus now.

[@Leonardo-or1ll]

53:30 Seems like the realist perspective is the correct perspective and the idealist democratic perspective is only one that can be afforded by a wealthy country which has never experienced desperation

[@massimo9533]

Long live to the american empire! Kind regards from the subject nation of Italy. Stay strong dear american masters.

[@Discipe]

Calling Dugin a Russian political philosopher is too far-fetched, in my view. He looks, speaks, and behaves as a marginal freak. It's truly hard to believe he could have any weight in political system. This claim is so out of reach that I'm not sure how good other points are. They sound logical, but still, it is a view of an outsider who only pretends that he "thinks like a russian leader."

[@vitostan3134]

He's a fringe lunatic that putin listened because it fit his narrative.

[@DaShooter12]

Putin has talked about Dugin, and repeated pan-slavic ideals before as well. Ukraine attempted to assassinate him as well, and accidentally killed his daughter IIRC. Dugin is certainly an influence, at least. Sure, he isn’t the Kennan of Putin’s Russia, but he’s certainly influential in that school of thought.

[@michaelmeenan5522]

Clown lecture. Alexander Dugin's religious influence runs very deep, especially with his solemn blessing of the russian missile satan II. Forgot about that, Bub, didn't cha! 😎

[@jorgemario1586]

US relations with the world are based on the respect of self determination of all countries... 😂😂 Ask a guatemalan citizen... 😂😂😂😂