Post-Soviet Russia relapsed into the classic Westernizer versus Slavophile divide

Evidence

With the end of the Cold War, Russia again became a “torn” country with the reemergence of the classic struggle between Westernizers and Slavophiles. For a decade, however, the trend was from the former to the latter, as the Westernized Gorbachev gave way to Yeltsin, Russian in style, Western in articulated beliefs, who, in turn, was threatened by nationalists epitomizing Russian Orthodox indigenization. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 256

Categorization

• XREF: Predicts and resonates with later Putin-era Orthodox nationalism — useful benchmark for how accurately Huntington’s framework read the 2020s.
• QUESTION: How well did this 1996 projection hold against Putin’s actual mixture of Western technocracy and Orthodox nationalist appeal?