Журнальный клуб Интелрос » Русский Журнал – Тема недели » №57 (eng), 2011
GEOFFREY ALAN HOSKING
MISSIONARY NATION
Russians, like the English, are a ‘missionary nation,’ that is, they dissolved their national identity in a universal mission, that of holding together a great multiethnic empire, and of spreading Orthodox Christianity – or Communism in the 20th century – to the rest of the world.
