Article: The Dark Forces: Popular Analogies in Russian Politics.

In his biography of Nicholas II, Dominic Lieven observed that the end of the Soviet regime, by closing a chapter in Russian history, dramatically increased the relevance of the czarist legacies for many aspects of contemporary politics.(1) Whereas, if only two or three decades ago large parts of the prerevolutionary, even the pre-Stalin, past were seen by many as confined to the dustbin of history, today the story of imperial Russia, especially that of her last few decades, has been resurrected into the "living" past, linked with current political, economic, and social developments.(2)

To observers of Russia, this resurrection was most notable on television ...

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