We talk to Pavel Khazanov about the delusional ideations of the generation that ended the Soviet Union…children of serfs who began to identify themselves with Russia’s old nobility.

Pavel is a professor at Rutgers. He recently wrote a book that inspired our talk: The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse.

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