The Rerikh Movement

Abstract

"When the Soviet Union died in 1991 the Soviet ideology died with it. This was not surprising. After the communist ideology established a monopoly of power in 1917, the decades that followed transformed it into a collection of meaningless formulae and primitive prejudices. This ideology was no longer seeking new answers to contemporary challenges, it was not developing, but just 'collapsed' and perished together with the political regime that was its protector. For the vast majority of the country's population, their past - including the ideals which they once shared to some extent, the values for the sake of which they had worked and which had made them proud of their country - had become something alien and was now being universally mocked."