At the Vanishing Point in History:
Critical Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War

Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

At the Edge of the Abyss: The Countdown Begins
Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University, USA)

Prologue

Doors of Hell: New Russian Apocalypticism
Mikhail Epstein (Emory University, USA)

Part I. Unlearned Lessons From Russia's Bloody History

The War on Progress and the Missed Opportunities of Russian Enlightenment
Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University, USA)

Between Nationalism and Universalism: The Imperial Imagination from Vladimir Solovyov to Alexandre Kojève
Boris Groys (European Graduate School, Switzerland)

The Defeated Judge the Victors, or Bolshevism in post-October Russian Thought
Alexander L. Dobrokhotov (King's College London, UK)

War in Ukraine and the Ethics of Pragmatism
Dmitri N. Shalin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)

Against the West: The Weimar Republic and Post-Soviet Russia in the Yeltsin Era as
Aggrieved Powers
Leonid Luks (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt,Germany),

Part II. The War of Obsession

The "End of History" or the End of the Human Race? Rereading Fukuyama and HuntingtonDuring Russia's War Against Ukraine
Mikhail Sergeev (University of the Arts, Philadelphia,USA)

Point of Madness and the Search for History's Meaning
Mikhail Blumenkranz (Independent Scholar, Germany)

Nostalgia, Trickster, and the War
Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University, USA)

The Return of the Grand Inquisitor
Maja Soboleva (University of Marburg, Germany)

The Viscosity of Russian Space: An Essay in Structural Analysis
Helen Petrovsky (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)

Part III. Does Russia Have a Future?

Cyclical Progress. The Eternal Return of Modernity
Vladimir Marchenkov (Ohio University, USA)

Being Guilty, Feeling Guilty: Right and Morality in Russia in the Shadow of the Current War
Michail Maiatsky (University of Fribourg / University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Russian Ouroboros
Mikhail P. Shishkin (Freelance Writer, Switzerland)

Defederating Russia
Alexander Etkind (Central European University, Vienna, Austria)