Russian Westernizers sought central power rather than democracy.

Evidence

At least until the 1980s, the democratizers in Russia were usually Westernizers, but the Westernizers were not democratizers. The lesson of Russian history is that the centralization of power is the prerequisite to social and economic reform. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 383

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth checking whether the same inversion holds for other torn or semi-rejected states Huntington analyzes — is ‘Westernizers but not democratizers’ a general pattern?
• XREF: Echoes the account in A Very Minor Prophet and other works about how reformist elites can deploy centralized power against their own populations; also resonates with Zamyatin’s We, where Westernized rationalism becomes totalitarianism.