Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kramarenko, A

Titel

Geopolitics of the Russian Revolution: What Does Counterfactual History Say?

Ist Teil von

• International affairs (Moscow), 2018-07, Vol.64 (4), p.187

Ort / Verlag

Moscow: East View Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Kramarenko talks about the disappointments caused by the lost chances to start a "new post-Cold War history" of world politics made counterfactual history the latest trend of historical studies. Counterfactual history encourages a game of imagination; this can be hardly called genuinely creative approach to history yet the results might be interesting or even instructive. The balance of power on the continent and the fact that St. Petersburg, as well as London, could not accept Germany's domination in Europe forced Russia, less prepared to the war than its European neighbors, to join the European tragedy. According to the poll the Bertelsmann Stiftung carried out in December 2017 in the EU countries, 32% of the polled supported President Putin against 23% of those who supported President Trump.