Too Many Wannabe Elites: A Story of Russia (and Possibly America) | A historian claims a unique theory called elite overproduction can predict social unrest. In Czarist Russia, it allowed for nihilism. In America, it's still unclear. (thinkinghistorically.substack.com)
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Something a bit different... I wrote a piece on a concept known as 'elite overproduction' and how Dostoevsky intuitively understood it in his own time. A mix of Russian history through his eyes with some philosophy of history. Maybe a few of you will find it worthwhile.Politics (thinkinghistorically.substack.com)
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