摘要：Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, inhabitants of its former republics have witnessed the return of history in their homelands. The Soviet illusion of a preordained and predestined future has been replaced by a feeling of unpredictability concerning the future, coupled with a sense of vulnerability vis-à-vis history in these new states. The challenges of great change have led to a multitude of ideological responses in the lands lying between Tallinn and Vladivostok, Murmansk and Osh, Magadan and Chisinau. Formerly engaged in the dogmas of Soviet Marxism, ideological creativity has returned to the new societies that are currently dwelling on the ruins of the USSR. History has repatriated the post-Soviet lands as a conflict of ideas and a clash of ideologies.
