Culture is local, art is universal. Russian litereature, music, art, theatre, film became universal; even during the Soviet period. The Bolshevicks will be foggoten, not Meyerhold. Communists are gone, not Eisenstein. Was the KGB right going after artists, feeling that they are the true alternative to the Marxist universal theory?
Maybe the conflict between two super-powers still exist: between American pop-culture and the code of art, which Russia should represent for all. Here, in the States, art has no future, everything is takes by popular (universal) culture; this is why so many societies (including American) see this process as deconstruction of their identity.

What is this artistic code? All super-powers of the past do have this nostalgia, look at French! But France was European empire, Russia -- not. When the old world went West to explore the new social forms, Russia was left behind to evolve into the third world. XX century made this motion in opposite directions into the Cold War... Do I have any reservations about "comministic" nature of art, which is for al and forever? No! Mozart and Shakespeare are true communists!

Enbough written about the Greek and the Roman ways (culture and civilization); the Soviets tried the Roman way (leave it to America). The Greek Idea is the intellectual diaspora, in time, not in space. In global environment where is this place?

All (West and the Russians) noticed that Russia lacks civil culture (and even a society)! Well, maybe to give up Russian experimentations with the social forms?

Many questions to follow, if to look from the future.

What if "people" is not about Russian nation, but about ALL people? Did the communists already try it? Russia went all the way into this "internationalism" -- the marxism didn't recognise "nations"... Trotsky died waiting for the World Revolution. No countries are in the postmodern reality. The Soviet Era was the extreme expression of POMO. Russia's position today is the post-postmodernism. Of course, they are confused, but this is main feature of POMO -- total relativism. Do they know what will come to them when Russia indeed catches up with America?

... "нация сократила себя до социального низа, а социальные низы разных наций сложились в одну нацию." M. Epstein So, why can't we do what was done by Christianity?

If Epstein is right than we have to declare the end of Russian Intelligencia as well. "Russian Intelligencia" -- not "Intelligencia" (the term is very Russian, not anything like "elite"). [ только в России абстрактная способность ума стала обозначением целого социального слоя, который со страстью предался занятию обобщения. ]

"Оказывается, народ, и интеллигенция, при всех своих расхождениях, составляют одно целое: (а) живущее общинно и (б) мыслящее обобщенно[2]." Epstein (Plato and kings-philosophers). ...

I have to come back to this page, not the realisation I (or today's Russia), we both, have nowhere to run, defect, escape...