Paul Robinson is a professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of numerous books on Russian and Soviet history including most recently Russian Conservatism (Northern Illinois University Press, 2019).

12.18.2022

• Paul Robinson

The Russian Rebuke to “End-of-History” Triumphalism Is Complex and Potentially Dangerous

Russian disenchantment with Western liberalism has produced a worldview hostile to end-of-history triumphalism. The rise of this ideology may be another sign of liberalism’s decline, but its tenets set it at odds with liberalism’s socialist critics.