In the sense that Marxism was a western product, he is often anti-western too: in other words, he is a thorough Slavophile.

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Some Slavophile politicians would have made wild threats.

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How far that lightning will strike audiences is going to depend on telling the westernising Ogarev from the slavophile Aksakov, the anarchist Bakunin from the literary critic Belinsky (played with febrile bravura by Will Keen in the plays' outstanding performance).

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