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Agriculture in the USSR
•�December 10, 2018
•�1,200 Words •�161 Comments
Russia harvested 133 million tons of grain in 2017, beating the all-time RSFSR record set in 1978. It has also been consistently harvesting more grain than in the Soviet years since the mid-2010s. Here it is in a wider historical perspective. Grain production in Russia from 1900-2012: Graph via @burckina-faso, a pro-Soviet blogger, so can... Read More
Short History of Russian Horses
•�April 1, 2018
•�300 Words •�29 Comments
The number of horses in the Russian Empire peaked in in 1913 and was around 35 million in 1916 (the US had about 20 million horses in 1915, and the two countries accounted for half the global equine population). At the time, they were almost all used in agriculture. The Soviet horse population plummeted during... Read More
The Return of the Eurasian Breadbasket
•�September 14, 2017
•�500 Words •�20 Comments
According to the latest estimates, Russia might harvest as much as 133 million tons of grain this year. This would make 2017 a record harvest not just by post-Soviet standards, which were pretty dismal until the past decade, but relative to the RSFSR's peak of 127.4mn tons in 1978. (This is the case even after... Read More
The Triple A's of Homicide: Agriculture, Alcohol, and Alphas
•�January 22, 2015
•�2,000 Words •�43 Comments
The commentator T. Greer, who incidentally has a wonderful blog of his own, writes in response to my Charlie Hebdo post: They sure are. There are some caveats here. For instance, international rape statistics are all but useless. If you took them at face value, as a woman you would be terrified at stepping outside... Read More
Review of "The Paleo Manifesto" by John Durant
•�November 20, 2013
•�1,700 Words •�4 Comments
"The Paleo Manifesto" by John Durant, published in 2013. Rating: 5/5. Most books on the paleo diet follow a set pattern: An inspirational story about how the author wrecked his health with junk food or vegetarianism before the caveman came riding on a white horse to the rescue; an explanation of why, contrary to the... Read More
Russia Burning: Not Apocalypse, But Its Prelude
•�August 7, 2010
•�1,900 Words •�44 Comments
This post is a meta-commentary on media coverage of Russia's drought and wildfires. Now make no mistake, I admire the yeoman work of some journalists in covering Russia burning: no doubt a few will even make their way into the classical cannon such as The Saga of the Burned Foot (Miriam Elder) or The Tale... Read More
Reconsidering Parshev
•�August 4, 2009
•�4,100 Words •�13 Comments
In most Russian bookstores, there is a bookshelf or two dedicated to so-called "patriotic literature" - reappraisals of Stalin against "liberal revisionism", overviews of Russia's secret super-weapons, the exploits of its special forces and Russian theo-philosophy. Much of it is (apparent) nonsense, but the economic crisis has forced me to reconsider one particular "patriotic" thesis... Read More
News 2 May: Russia's Second Oil Peak
•�April 25, 2008
•�4,600 Words •�5 Comments
For all the noise being made this month about Georgia, about NATO, about Tibet, etc, possibly the most portentous is that it seems Russia hit its oil peak (strictly speaking, its second - the first happened in 1987), well in line with peakist predictions. Production increases via application of new technology, as seen in the... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.