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The Socialist Myth: Igor Shafarevich and Modern Nihilism

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Comprehensive ideological systems, which determine the prevailing world view in societies and cultures, are based on so-called “grand narratives”.1 Such grand narratives are mostly of a religious nature. In earlier phases of human cultural development, […]

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