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| | Russian Race |
 | | In 1911 Petr Stolypin, Russia's reformist premier and interior minister under the last tsar, declared: "I believe in Russia. |
 | | Even liberal Herzen sensed a "touch of death" on the "dilapidated organism of Europe." Russia was thus in a position of moral superiority - especially after it had already demonstrated its military superiority over Napoleonic France. |
 | | Official ideologists of the tsar and Russophile thinkers like Stepan Shevyrev, Vladimir Odoevskii, Ivan Kireevevskii, Konstantin Aksakov, Aleksei Khomiakov, Konstantin Leontiev, and others assured their fellow-Russians that Western Europe was diseased, decadent, rotten, soulless, and dead, spiritually. |
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