Europeanized Russians, the Westernizers in opposition to the Slavophiles, never had a love affair with the Russian people. |
But Russian intellectuals themselves were as divided then as they are today between westernizers and Slavophiles. |
But Russia's self-destructive confrontation with the West can be halted, and its centuries-old debate between Westernizers and the Slavophiles put to rest once and for all. |