The Russian internal identity debate relocated to Europe as a left-right contest

Evidence

The debate in Russia between Slavophiles and Westernizers over the future of Russia was thus replaced by a debate in Europe between left and right over the future of the West and whether or not the Soviet Union epitomized that future. After World War II the power of the Soviet Union reinforced the appeal of communism both in the West and, more significantly, in those non-Western civilizations which were now reacting against the West. Elites in Westerndominated non-Western societies who wished to seduce the West talked in terms of self-determination and democracy; those who wished to confront the West invoked revolution and national liberation. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 386

Categorization

• XREF: The final distinction between ‘seduce’ versus ‘confront’ the West maps onto the accommodation-versus-confrontation axis later in this book’s analysis of non-Western responses.