Having just transposed, in the previous entry, the Christian Paschal mystery of God to the human mystery of death and man’s hope of a life after death, I do not intend to stop there. As a student of Russian history, I can see yet another such transposition.
Russian history to me is a history of death and resurrection, which proceeds in cycles. The twentieth century alone brought us two such metaphysical cycles-- the death of Tsarist Russia in 1917 and her resurrection as the mighty Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and next the death of the USSR in the 1990’s and the newest Russian resurrection at the dawn of the new millennium…
Russian history to me is a history of death and resurrection, which proceeds in cycles. The twentieth century alone brought us two such metaphysical cycles-- the death of Tsarist Russia in 1917 and her resurrection as the mighty Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and next the death of the USSR in the 1990’s and the newest Russian resurrection at the dawn of the new millennium…
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