The Russian challenge and the year 2000

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In May 1981, at a conference in Washington devoted to Russian nationalism, I was left dumbfounded by the presentation of Jerry Hough, one of the most well-known and radical revisionists in American sovietology The gist of his speech was that all Russians are nationalists. Andrei Sakharov, for example, is just as much a nationalist as Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Leon d Brezhnev. Of course, Hough continued, we must differentiate between the good Russian nationalists and the bad ones, but m principle the problem is clear: when dealing with Russians, no matter who they may be, we are dealing with nationalists.

Richard Pipes, one of the most well-known and radical traditional­ists in American sovietology, arrived late at the conference and so missed the presentation of his antipode. The reader may imagine the audience's astonishment when in his speech Pipes, virtually word for word, reiterated Hough's tirade.

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