<fontfamily><param>Times</param><bigger><bigger>"The world-systems
analysis, created by Immanuel Wallerstein, illuminates our [Russia's]
true position in the world-system... which is now obfuscated by the
liberal proclamations of "civilized" well-wishers...
Good behavior wouldn't earn us a polite invitation into the exclusive
club of core countries. Positions in the core are taken by working
with elbows, by crushing the bones of competitors."
Evgeni Starikov from Tula (the homebase of General Lebed)
"Defenders of the Heartland or Islanders?"
letter to the editor of Novy Mir, pp. 235-241.
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Georgi M. Derluguian
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
1812 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
(847) 491-2741 (rabota)