State Duma, Hotel Moskva, Moscow Kremlin and Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge. Photo: Government of Moscow Press Centre wikimedia.org
Recent apocalyptic discourse surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic is now being made worse by a growing conflict between liberal globalisation and an alternative vision of the world championed by Russia and China. This is happening during yet another crisis of capitalism and social and economic change across the world.
The dream of the Roaring Twenties
Members of
an increasingly ambitious and provocative Kremlin recently announced the coming
of “The Roaring
Twenties”. This is a narrative driven only partly by Moscow’s traditional notion of a ‘Russian World’.