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Aleksandr A. Vershinin

PhD in History
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Faculty of History
Department of 20th- and 21st-Century Russian History
Assistant Professor

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SPIN-RSCI: 3162-9019
ORCID: 0000-0001-5206-8013
ResearcherID: Q-5433-2017

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E-mail: averchinine@gmail.com
Address: 27, Bldg. 4, Lomonosovsky Prospect, Moscow 119192, Russia

The Phantom Menace

Moscow’s sharp pivot in late 2021–early 2022 was seemingly meant to finally change things. One can speculate about how events would have developed if Russia had achieved quick success in Ukraine.

Aleksandr A. Vershinin

Russian Strategic Culture in Retrospect

Russian strategic culture does not need a radical overhaul. Rather, the 20th century suggests that the Achilles’ heel of Russian strategy has been the desire to simplify it and to define strategic goals on the basis of political ones. Politics is closely linked to strategy, but they speak different languages.

Aleksandr A. Vershinin, Alexei A. Krivopalov

The Empire and the Nation in the 20th Century

World War I is rightly called the suicide of Europe. It would be even more appropriate to consider it the suicide of empires. WWI graphically demonstrated that the major threat to any empire was not domestic nationalism, but another empire.

Aleksandr A. Vershinin