Me te neke matou ki te pou-Whawhai Matao era, U
I roto i te i te United States kitea Russia kitea ratou i te watershed: te Matao te Whawhai, kei runga, i te Union Soviet kua rewa, me te whakakapi i te tekau ma rima motuhake iwi-states tōpūtanga-ā-iwi ko te discredited me te haumaru mō te mana nui e rua, ko te nui ake i te mahi o te kāinga whakahou i te riri wahoand Russian rangatira hiahia ana koe ki te rethink taketake whakapae e pā ana ki te haumaru, e pā ana ki ke kaupapa here kaupapa matua, me te e pā ana ki faufaa tōrangapū alignments. Moscow, me te Washington hiahia ana koe ki te reconceptualize to ratou hononga. Ahakoa kore te hub o te nui imperial pūnaha, Moscow ko te whakapaipai o te Russian Federation, i te nui rawa o te tekau ma rima republics ki te puta ki te rangatiratanga rite ki te hua o te USSR o te matenga.
E rua o enei ngā o te whakaaro e te tino nui
Na roto i te viivii ore o tona kainga, o te tuhinga o te mua Union Soviet o te karihi me te tikanga ope, ko te reira i te tino kaha, a ko reira te koloa'ia i roto i te rauemi. Te Russian te ārahitanga i raro i te Peresideni Boris Yeltsin ana ki te hokinga mai o Russia ki Uropi, ki te whakamutu i te wehe i te te hau-ā-Uru ko te āhuatanga matua o te wā o te Soviet tikanga. Ibis tukanga tīmata i raro i Mikhail Gorbachev, ko tona acquiescence ki te decommunization i roto i te Eastern Europe, whakaiti o te Soviet ope i roto i te rohe, me te whakaaetanga ki German reunification i te tikanga ki te poipoi i te Europeanization o Moscow o te kaupapa here. I roto i te pānga o te whai i te 'Pākehā noa te kāinga,' Gorbachev i implicitly whakaae te tuuraki o te noa-pāpori alliance. Heoi, i reira kua tonu kua tetahi ambivalence ki Europe i roto i Russia tikanga o whiriwhiri.
I roto i te pokapū o te rau tau tekau mā iwa, e rua whakataetae conceptions ö: Slavophiles versus Westernizers.
Te Slavophiles whakapono i roto i te painga me te hītori misioni o te tau, Byzantine, Eastern Haratau, tangata iho ratou whakanuia mesia te nationalism, i te whakakotahitanga o te Slavs, me te roha puta noa i te Eurasian whenua papatipu. Te Westernizers tohe Russia wahi o Europe, ahakoa i te iti matatau ōhanga, me te tōrangapū wāhanga o te whanaketanga e ratou ma te kāwanatanga o te hapori, me te te ture i te pūnaha whakatauira i runga i te Ingarangi te wheako.
