In 1921, the famous scientist R.Yu. Vipper summed up recent events [1, p. 3], Everything happened just the opposite to what the theory predicted. We used history to explain how the Russian state grew and what kept it going. Now the fact of Russia’s fall, predicted very poorly by science, makes us … test our judgment. It imperiously demands an explanation. We must find its portents and its deep causes; we must inevitably change the interpretations of … science.
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