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Tsar Alexander I: Father Of The West?
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Rod Dreher's Diary

In Warsaw this week, I asked a Pole which people the Poles hate more, the Germans or the Russians, having been mauled by both nations in the 20th century. rCLWe hate them both,rCY she said, rCLbut we hate the Russians more. The Germans were terrible, but the Russians were absolutely barbaric. They raped all the women, even children.rCY They also stayed a lot longer, she might have said.

HererCOs a thought: could it be Russia that, in a real sense, made the West? ThatrCOs one conclusion raised in this superb review essay by the Russian- American historian Yuri Slezkine, of a new history about the meaning of
rCLthe West.rCY I canrCOt do it justice through selective quotes, so I hope you
will read the whole thing. I went straightaway to Amazon and bought the
Kindle version of the book under review, The West: A History Of An Idea,
by Georgios Varouxakis (and please, withhold your criticism of me for
using Amazon; if you were an English speaker living in Middle Europe, you would thank Jeff Bezos with all your heart that you can buy just about any English book in electronic form instantly).

VarouxakisrCOs argument is that historically speaking, there was no rCLWestrCY until Russia defeated Napoleon in 1812. (Remember, his book isnrCOt a
history of Western civilization, but rather one of the concept of rCLthe WestrCY.) It was only then, he posits, that Europeans began to think of themselves as a collection of nations that are of Christian heritage, but
Not Russia.

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