At the Vanishing Point in History: Critical Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction At the Edge of the Abyss: The Countdown Begins Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University, USA) Prologue Doors of Hell: New Russian Apocalypticism Mikhail Epstein (Emory University, USA) Part I. Unlearned Lessons From Russia's Bloody History The War on Progress and the Missed Opportunities of Russian Enlightenment Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University, USA) Between Nationalism and Universalism: The Imperial Imagination from Vladimir Solovyov to Alexandre Koj è ve Boris Groys (European Graduate School, Switzerland) The Defeated Judge the Victors, or Bolshevism in post-October Russian Thought Alexander L. Dobrokhotov (King's College London , UK) War in Ukraine and the Ethics of Pragmatism Dmitri N. Shalin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA) A gainst the West: The Weimar Republic and Post-Soviet Russia in the Yeltsin Era as Aggrieved Powers Leonid Luks (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt,Germany) , Part II. The War of Obsession The "End of History" or the End of the Human Race? Rereading Fukuyama and Huntington During Russia's War Against Ukraine Mikhail Sergeev (University of the Arts, Philadelphia,USA) Point of Madness and the Search for History's Meaning Mikhail Blumenkranz (Independent Scholar, Germany) Nostalgia, Trickster, and the War Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University, USA) The Return of the Grand Inquisitor Maja Soboleva (University of Marburg, Germany) The Viscosity of Russian Space: An Essay in Structural Analysis Helen Petrovsky (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) Part III. Does Russia Have a Future? Cyclical Progress.
The Eternal Return of Modernity Vladimir Marchenkov (Ohio University, USA) Being Guilty, Feeling Guilty: Right and Morality in Russia in the Shadow of the Current War Michail Maiatsky (University of Fribourg / University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Russian Ouroboros Mikhail P. Shishkin (Freelance Writer, Switzerland) Defederating Russia Alexander Etkind (Central European University, Vienna, Austria).