Book: The blood and soil of Russian history

We should openly and honestly admit that twice in the twentieth century Russian people single-handedly ruined the state and the country, which he created himself at the cost of enormous sacrifices and efforts. <...> The Soviet Union first died in millions of Russian hearts and then ceased to exist as a political and legal category and a social construction. The clearest evidence of his inner exhaustion is the lack of a clear and strong reaction - elite and mass - to destruction of the country.

Throughout Russian history the Russian people and the Russian government were in a symbiotic relationship. The state-fed Russian force and ruthlessly exploited her: Russian lower classes had no ethnic preferences and did most of the state tax. At the same time, the Russians needed the state as the guarantor of the independence and stability, organizer of the national effort. However, the force of its pressure on the Russian people, the severity of operation increases as the success of the Imperial (socialist) construction, growth of foreign influence and military power of the country, reducing the share of Russian in its population. All this provoked discontent, turning the Russian main support of the Empire a threat to its stability. The success of the pipe line Russian sweat and blood, to undermine the strength of the Russian people and thus undermined the power of the Empire.

The Russian Empire was not only an Empire without imperialism. She was an "Empire opposite", do you mean it is public education, where nominal nominal Imperial metropolis and were discriminated against by the people in favor of the national periphery.

However, Russia is among the continental empires were specially the severity of the Russian burden. In the Imperial construction of Russian has paradoxically become hostages of their own power, turning them into draft horses and reservoir of cannon fodder.

However, the Russian ethnicity was not a privilege but a burden. Russian people - the Creator and Keeper of the state - in the mass, had political and cultural privileges and preferences. Russia was not the "mother country", and Russian - dominant nation, there was national oppression in their favor.