Njengoko siza yiya kwi-i-Yingqele Imfazwe era, U.S
Kwi-s-United States fumana i-Russia fumana ngokwabo e a watershed: Yingqele Imfazwe iphezu, Soviet Union wenziwe lokuphela kwexesha kwaye endaweni yi-elinesihlanu elizimeleyo isizwe-states communism ngu discredited nokhuseleko kuba ezimbini ezinkulu amagunya kubaluleke ngakumbi, umsebenzi domestic komhlaba kunokuba wangaphandle threatkwaye Russian iinkokheli kufuneka rethink ezisisiseko assumptions malunga nokhuseleko, malunga iinqwelo-nkqubo ephambili, kwaye malunga kubalulekile ezopolitiko alignments.
Moscow kwaye comment ingxwaba kufuneka reconceptualize zabo budlelwane.
Nangona ayisasebenzi i-indawo esembinbdini yevili a baninzi imperial indlela, Moscow ingaba imali ye-isirashiya, oyena ye-elinesihlanu republics ukuba zivela, ukuba ukuzimela njengoko ngenxa USSR ke demise.
Ngo ngenxa yayo ulawulo lwazo a preponderance ka-owokuqala Soviet Union ke yenyukliya kwaye conventional imikhosi, kubalulekile kakhulu enamandla, kwaye ngumsebenzi richest kwiindawo zokusebenza. I-Russian leadership phantsi Umongameli Boris Yeltsin uzinikele ukubuya ka-Russia ukuba Yurophu, ukuphelisa isolation ukususela West ukuba wayeyindoda dominant umsebenzi we-ixesha Soviet umthetho. Ibis inkqubo waqala phantsi Mikhail Gorbachev, egama acquiescence ukuba decommunization kwi-Empuma Yurophu, reduction ka-Soviet imikhosi kummandla, kwaye kwesi sivumelwano isijamani reunification baba intended ukuba foster i-Europeanization ka-Moscow ngu-nkqubo.
Omabini la currents ka-wayecinga ukuba ingaba kakhulu
Kwi-inzala ka-umleqa 'eqhelekileyo European ekhaya,' Gorbachev kokuba implicitly amkela dismantling ye-ngokufanayo socialist alliance. Nangona kunjalo, kukho ingaba usoloko uhleli ethile ambivalence kwiintlanganiso Yurophu phakathi Us ke ruling bomgangatho. Kwi-mid-nineteenth century, zimbini ethengisela conceptions crystallized: Slavophiles versus Westernizers. I-Slavophiles akholelwe superiority kwaye zembali umsebenzi womsindisi Us ke Byzantine, Empuma-Orthodox, autocratic tradition baya kuphakanyiswa messianic nationalism, umanyano ye-Slavs, kwaye expansion kuwo Eurasian ilizwe ngokwesiqu.
I-Westernizers argued ukuba Us yaba yinxalenye Yurophu, nangona e a ngaphantsi ebheka phambili kwezoqoqosho kwaye ezopolitiko iqonga ka-uphuhliso baya espoused liberalization kuluntu kwaye i-siseko indlela modeled kwi-British amava.
