Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson brings us a new Orthodox Nationalist, this week looking at the pre-revolutionary sexual liberation movement in Russia. The death of Nicholas I in the midst of the Crimean War signaled the start of the revolution. The abolition of serfdom in 1861 (just a few years later) seemed to hammer the final nail…
Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson brings us a new Orthodox Nationalist looking at the Mystic Emperor Michael II (1648-1708) and the Kitezh idea in revolutionary, Petrine Russia. Most Russian historians claim that he did not exist. Michael II was the eldest son of Tsar Alexis, but was quickly sent into internal exile as the ruling class…
Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson brings us a new Orthodox Nationalist looking at Lev Lopatin (1885-1920) and the modern destruction of the self. Lopatin remains almost entirely untranslated in the west. Terrified at the invasion of western rationalism and empiricism in Russia, he sought a counterrevolution in idealism. Primarily based upon all things assuming God, or…
Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson presents another edition of the Orthodox Nationalist, this time dealing with the Koliivshchyna rebellion, sometimes called the Haidamak revolt, which began in 1768. It’s spiritual foundation was the Abbot of the Motronynskyi (or Motroninsky) Monastery near Chyhyryn in western Ukraine, Abbot Melchizedek (Jaworski). In this powerful address, Dr. Johnson calls on the…
This week’s podcast from Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson is on Vladimir Putin and the war against Russia. More than anything else, Dr. Johnson’s career has revolved around explaining Putin’s success and the failures of liberalism. Liberalism is the official creed of the Regime, that network of power that is the New World Order and that…
Matthew Raphael Johnson Johnstown, PA Ukrainian nationalism has been one of the most heartbreaking failures of recent decades. Twice, Ukrainian nationalist have been fooled into believing the west was their champion. In 2004 and again in 2014, western financed violence and riots brought in governments that were nothing more than collection agencies for western capital.…
Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson contrasts the nationalist philosophy of Martin Heidegger with the unnatural oppression that is Marxism. Socialism is not the domain of Marxism and it is not even a very good example of the school. Capital is a revolutionary force and always has been. https://ia801503.us.archive.org/8/items/TON082316/TON%20082316.mp3 Martin Heidegger is not accessible to the average…
In the 1990s, the “voice of Russian nationalism” was Vladimir Zhirinovsky. I was not the first to notice that his antics and incoherence was working in favor of Yeltsin. His real name is Edelstein. The consummate showman, he would appear whenever Yeltsin was in trouble or the opposition against him in the west grew. He would…
In the last issue, I argued that the Mongols did not invade Russia. It is normally the case that “Mongol” and “Tartar” are used simultaneously. If the Mongols and Tartars were not from Mongolia, then who were they? In 1817 Christian Kruse published his Atlas of European history. There, or the first time, the term “Mongol-Tartar”…
The Bolshevik empire was forged by Jews on both sides of the Atlantic. Therefore, understanding the history of Russo-Jewish relations is of immense importance in making sense of the 20th century. In this broadcast, TBR’s own Matthew Raphael Johnson speaks with Andrew Carrington Hitchcock on just this question. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-140803/TS-1097758.mp3 It is almost impossibly to find…