In Russia, failed coups portend turmoil and collapse. They also herald greater repression, and a tightening of centralized control. This is because Russian history has swung back and forth between chaos and autocracy, which have become mutually reinforcing symptoms of the same historical condition. Russians have a word for the periods of turmoil: smuta. Wagner […]
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