Adopting Western ideology drew Russia closer to the West than ever

Evidence

By adopting Western ideology and using it to challenge the West, Russians in a sense became closer to and more intimately involved with the West than at any previous time in their history. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 387

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the logic in The Namesake and postcolonial theory that colonized peoples using the colonizer’s language create intimate entanglement even in opposition. — connects to: Russia uses separate words for 19th-century and present populism, unlike Europe — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 68