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Egor Kholmogorov: Russia and the Great War. Victory a Hundred Years Past.
•�November 10, 2019
•�3,900 Words •�539 Comments
Monument to the Heroes of World War I, erected in Victory Park, Moscow in 2014. After a more than a year-long hiatus, caused by certain geographic and occupational changes in his life, the author of these lines would like to resume his translations of Kholmogorov’s work. Remembrance/Veterans’ Day seems like a marvelous occasion to present... Read More
Egor Kholmogorov: Simple Truths
and •�December 20, 2018
•�1,600 Words •�182 Comments
There are often questions in the comments about Egor Kholmogorov's stance on various things, e.g. about how he reconciles his Orthodox beliefs with Russian ethnonationalism. So I prepared something different from our usual fare of serious longreads - a series of translations of his social media posts, where he briefly but succinctly addresses some of... Read More
Petre Țuțea on Russians
•�October 29, 2018
•�1,000 Words •�63 Comments
Almost none of Romania's celebrity intellectuals have yet been translated into English (presumably, the fact that most of them - Eminescu, Iorga, Eliade, Cioran, Țuțea - are reactionaries or fascists of some stripe or another played a role in that). Hopefully, this may yet change, at least with respect to Țuțea. This post features a... Read More
Egor Kholmogorov: Nicholas II - the Tsar of Normalcy
and •�July 3, 2018
•�3,100 Words •�335 Comments
Nicholas II & family, 1914. Colorized by Olga. As the perfect companion piece to his takedown of Stalin, here’s Egor Kholmogorov's appraisal of Nicholas II, styled an “anti-Stalin”, written during his recent trip to Crimea, which provoked another round of teeth-gnashing among Neo-Stalinists and Sovietophiles. It should also be norws that a recent poll shows... Read More
Egor Kholmogorov: Stalin Is Not Great
and •�June 8, 2018
•�6,500 Words •�940 Comments
Vladislav Pravdin - GREAT STALIN (1949). It is our joy that during the hard years of the war the Red Army and the Soviet people were led by the wise and experienced leader of the Soviet Union - the GREAT STALIN. And now for something completely different. Instead of snippets from larger works, here’s Egor... Read More
Egor Kholmogorov: Solzhenitsyn Against US-Soviet Convergence
and •�May 6, 2018
•�4,500 Words •�94 Comments
The doubtless success of the “primer” for Kholmogorov’s Solzhenitsyn treatise has compelled both the author and the translator to publish another “juicy bit” from the sprawling work. This part of the article analyzes Solzhenitsyn’s rejection of the Enlightenment that led him to lambast Andrey Sakharov’s project of a gradual “convergence” between Communism and Capitalism, causing... Read More
Egor Kholmogorov: Alexander Solzhenitsyn - A Russian Prophet
and •�April 24, 2018
•�2,300 Words •�379 Comments
Almost by necessity, all previous Kholmogorov translations have been those of his older texts, with a “lag” between the original and the translation varying between several days and several months. What you see now is a much rarer treat. Kholmogorov has just finished a long and engrossing article on Alexander Solzhenitsyn, clocking in at 16,000... Read More
Egor Kholmogorov: Russians in the 20th Century, Part II
and •�April 20, 2018
•�4,000 Words •�435 Comments
The latest in our series of translations of Russian national-conservative intellectual Egor Kholmogorov. For the first part, see: Russians in the 2oth Century. Part I: Origins to WWII. Incidentally, while counter-mainstream commenters in the West are hardly well compensated, this is unfortunately doubly true in Russia. If you have enjoyed our translations of him, a... Read More
Egor Kholmogorov: Russians in the 20th Century, Part I
and •�March 26, 2018
•�3,900 Words •�220 Comments
The latest in our series of translations of Russian national-conservative intellectual Egor Kholmogorov. This massive opus, which will be published in two parts, is the closest thing there is to a condensed historiosophy of Kholmogorov's. Translated by Fluctuarius Argenteus Original: *** The modern Russian nation grew out of the Old Rus people, whose identity had... Read More
Egor Kholmogorov: 12 Myths of the Bolshevik Revolution
and •�November 10, 2017
•�6,000 Words •�29 Comments
Pavel Ryzhenko (2008): Umbrella. The latest in our series of translations of Russian national-conservative intellectual Egor Kholmogorov, as promised. In his latest article, published at Vzglyad, Kholmogorov demolishes twelve myths about the Bolshevik revolution, using a recent article by the Russian novelist Zakhar Prilepin as a foil. Why Prilepin? Who is he, anyway? You won't... Read More
Egor Kholmogorov: Socialism Not Dead - Paradoxes of an Unsolved Problem
and •�October 11, 2017
•�4,000 Words •�284 Comments
The latest in our series of translations of Russian national-conservative thinker Egor Kholmogorov. Translated by: Fluctuarius Argenteus; slightly edited by AK. Original: *** It may seem strange that, at the turn of the 21st century, the word “Socialism” is back in the popular political idiom. The final decade of the preceding century seemed to have... Read More
Egor Kholmogorov - Mammoths and Patriots on the Russian Plain
and •�September 7, 2017
•�5,000 Words •�169 Comments
The conventional view of nationalism is that it was a product of mass literacy and the modern state, underpinned by schoolbooks and Tombs of the Unknown Soldier. Recent years have seen challenges to this historiographic consensus at both a general level (e.g. Azar Gat's Nations), and with respect to specific peoples (Robert Tomb's recent The... Read More
A New Martin Luther?
A Russian Conservative on James Damore
•�August 9, 2017
•�2,700 Words •�153 Comments
Prosvirnin is the most talented writer. Limonov has by far the most colorful personality. Dugin has been the most effective at promoting himself in the West. Prokhanov probably has the most name recognition in Russia. Galkovsky created the most powerful memes. Krylov provided the esoteric flavoring. And yet out of all of Russia's right-wing intellectuals,... Read More
Churkin's Secret Blog
•�February 25, 2017
•�1,500 Words •�11 Comments
The recently departed Vitaly Churkin was /ourguy/ in every sense of the word. Not only did he fight the good fight in the UN, it has recently emerged he also blogged the good blog (and commented the good comments) online as imperia-mir. We can't be 100% certain that it is him. We have only the... Read More
Translation: Egor Kholmogorov - A Cruel French Lesson
and •�November 17, 2015
•�1,900 Words •�2 Comments
A Cruel French Lesson, by Egor Kholmogorov appeared in the November 14 issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda, one of the leading Russian dailies. It outlines what is pretty much the standard right-wing conservative Russian position on the #ParisAttacks. Some context: After the terrorist strikes, many outspoken Russian liberals rushed to wrap their digital selves in the... Read More
Translation: Xi Jinping - to Remember History, to Open the Future
•�May 9, 2015
•�1,500 Words •�13 Comments
Xi Jinping (pictured right, meeting the Patriarch Kirill) penned an op-ed in a Russian newspaper on May 6th in which, in stark contrast to the typical Western bile and hostility, he acknowledges the role of the Soviet Union in defeating Nazism and warns off against attempts to revise that outcome, be it on paper or... Read More
Translation: Russia Today Hired You to Talk About the Cynicism and Wickedness of the West (Konstantin von Eggert)
•�October 4, 2012
•�1,400 Words •�58 Comments
This post is a continuation of the last, and can otherwise be called "Konstantin von Eggert: A Case Study In Democratic Journalism (part 2)." Alternatively, one might view it as a refutation of claims that the Kremlin controls or censors the Russian media (Eggert's own protestations, hilarious and Orwellian in the context of what follows,... Read More
Konstantin von Eggert: A Case Study In Democratic Journalism (Part 1)
•�October 2, 2012
•�2,200 Words •�5 Comments
There is a term on Runet, popularized by the satirical "dissident" Lev Sharansky, called "democratic journalist." Of course, this term is every bit as satirical as its main propagator. In the Russian context, it denotes a journalist who is obsessed with free speech, human rights, democracy, the whole turkey. But they are "obsessed" with them... Read More
Seven Myths About the Russian Elections
•�April 1, 2012
•�1,300 Words •�11 Comments
Apart from direct falsifications, which were extensively discussed here, the other really big criticism of the Russian elections process is that it isn't a level playing field. As said by an OSCE bureaucrat, "The point of elections is that the outcome should be uncertain. This was not the case in Russia." Well wait a second.... Read More
Quiz: Did This Happen In Russia or A Democratic Country?
•�March 9, 2012
•�1,200 Words •�1 Comment
Did you know that elections in Britain and the US are marred by mass fraud? At least that would be the inescapable conclusion if they were to be subjected to the most popular methods to "prove" that Russian elections are rigged in favor of Putin and United Russia. Below I have a translated a delightful... Read More
Translation: Sergey Zhuravlev - the Reversal of the "Russian Cross"
•�February 23, 2012
•�2,900 Words •�1 Comment
Sergey Zhuravlev is a Russian economist who runs a wonky but eminently readable and very useful, interesting blog and writes for Expert (author profile), which I may add is an excellent publication. You have met him previously on my blog as the inventor of a clever - if, in my opinion, flawed - argument that... Read More
Translation: Sergey Lukyanenko - I Will Vote for Putin
•�January 23, 2012
•�1,800 Words •�30 Comments
Courtesy of Evgeny's comment at Mark Adomanis' blog, I found a very interesting piece by Sergey Lukyanenko - the bestselling Russian sci-fi writer best known for his Night Watch series, which was later converted into Russia's first blockbuster film in 2004 - on the recent turmoil in Russian politics. It is a bit dated, from... Read More
Maksim Schweiz - It's Time to Shove Off to Belarus!
and •�October 2, 2011
•�1,700 Words •�19 Comments
In the vein of my recent posts on the myth of Russian emigration, I am now publishing a translation of Уехать в Белоруссию ("Go Off To Belarus") by Maksim Schweiz writing for Rosbalt news agency. It is a joint effort by Nils van der Vegte, who blogs with Joera Mulders at Russia Watchers and is... Read More
Nikolai Starikov - How Russian Liberals Create Russophobe Myths
•�July 23, 2011
•�2,100 Words •�59 Comments
Do you remember the growing chorus of voices in the Western media speaking of a "growing wave" of emigration from Putin's Russia? Those 1.25 million liberal professionals who have fled that neo-Soviet abyss in the past few years? As it turns out, not only are these stories complete fabrications - in a previous post, I... Read More
The Stalinist Drug Warrior: the Real Medvedev, Part 2
•�July 14, 2011
•�700 Words •�18 Comments
Following on from my last post in which I revealed the neoliberal, anti-Russian inclinations of Dmitry Medvedev (pictured left, sporting his new Hitler mustache), let us know consider another question - what to make of his much vaunted liberalism, his humaneness, his consciousness? The Western media as with their liberal Russian running dogs have traditionally... Read More
Translation: Russia's Phantom Tandem, Real Triumvirate and the Kremlin Clan Wars
•�August 3, 2010
•�3,400 Words •�32 Comments
In the post with A Good Treaty's interview, the commentator peter recommended this book, ВЛАСТЬ-2010: 60 биографий (Power in 2010: 60 biographies) by Vladimir Pribylovsky, as a "useful primer on who's who in the Kremlin". I happen to agree - with many qualifications, which are discussed below - which is why I translated its introductory... Read More
The Boris Bombshell. Two Years Later. Still a Dud.
•�June 18, 2010
•�4,400 Words •�12 Comments
During the past two years, Russian "dissident" liberals Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov have produced a frankly maniacal quantity of so-called "Independent Expert Reports" (there are now seven of them) that purport to debunk the "persistent myths imposed by official [Kremlin] propaganda". The authors say that their latest exegesis, melodramatically entitled "Putin. The Results. 10... Read More
Translation: On Liberasts and Liberasty
•�April 24, 2010
•�800 Words •�16 Comments
So I decide to write about Putin's mistakes to counter my public image as "ein strammer Putin-soldat", and guess what, the first comment I get denounces me as a "completely naive and/or delusional person" for daring to "take “Russia’s corruption trends” seriously" (I suppose it proves the old dictim that you can't please everyone all... Read More
Translation: Tatyana Korchevnaya - On Liberal Web Brigades
•�March 9, 2009
•�6,500 Words •�3 Comments
It is a pity that foreigners are not privy to the wild and wacky world of LiveJournal, Russia's premier blogging site - many prominent people have accounts there and traditions of opposition and kompromat makes for a lively stream of scandal. One recent case involved Tatyana Korchevnaya, who used to be a prominent member of... 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.