Russia - Rationale Magazine

15 Feb

The end of the ‘American moment’

09/03/2024
By David James
0 comments

This article is part of our ‘Mulling over America’ feature series, with contributors providing Rationalist perspectives on what ...

30 Oct

Ethics & Religion

Truth and consequences in a world of liars

30/10/2023
By Geoffrey Barker
0 comments

The world watches horrified as bombs and rockets kill thousands and reduce Ukraine and Gaza to smoking rubble. Australians agonise over...

24 Dec

History

Gorbachev’s appeal for peace and freedom

13/02/2023
By Reg Naulty
0 comments

As a world statesman and a student of world affairs, Mikhail Gorbachev’s perspective is worth having. His 2019 book, What Is at Stake N...

08 Dec

History

Mikhail Gorbachev wanted to save communism, but buried it instead

08/12/2022
By Richard Shorten
0 comments

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, under whose leadership the communist bloc was brought to an...

25 Oct

Law & Politics

Why ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is not a reliable guide to contemporary politics

25/10/2022
By Chris Fleming
0 comments

In January 2017, Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway was quizzed on White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about th...

06 Apr

Law & Politics

Both facts and fake news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are spread on social media

22/07/2022
By Richard Lachman
0 comments

As the story goes, in the 1780s, a former lover of the Empress of Russia wanted to impress her with his efforts to build empire in what...

07 Mar

History

Ukraine as a ‘borderland’: A brief history of Ukraine’s place between Europe and Russia

One interpretation of the name 'Ukraine' is borderland. This needs to be taken seriously. Borderlands are all about diversity and co...

01 Mar

History

Ukraine crisis: The Russian leader’s vision of the past

22/07/2022
By Paul Monk
2 comments

The day that Vladimir Putin sent Russian forces into Ukraine, President Biden spoke publicly about the sheer mendacity of Putin’s propa...

05 Nov

History

Tolstoy’s last years

04/08/2022
By Reg Naulty
0 comments

Tolstoy’s death in 1910 occurred just seven years before the Russian Revolution. His last two essays What’s To Be Done? and I Cannot B...

Tag Archives: Russia