The Bear Watches the Dragon by Lukin Alexander;

Author:Lukin, Alexander;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

According to Ovchinnikov, Deng Xiaoping and his followers managed to elaborate and model the transition from a planned to a market economy which best fitted Chinese realities. During this transition, they managed to minimize the social costs of the reforms and not only avoided excessive polarization of the society but also maintained the stimuli for economic growth. In Ovchinnikov’s view, this historical lesson was instructive for Russia.40

The view of China by most “patriots” of non-Communist persuasion is close to that of the former members of Rakhmanin’s group, although it is usually expressed in much more colorful language in such “patriotic” newspapers as Sovetskaia Rossiia, Zavtra, and others. Sometimes “patriotic” and Communist views are indistinguishable, and they use such notions as “socialism” and “strong state” (of which China is a symbol) almost as synonyms. A typical example is a short article “Deng’s Exploit” by the editor of Sovetskaia Rossiia, V. Chikin, and the editor of Zavtra, Aleksandr Prokhanov, to commemorate the death of the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. According to the authors, Deng Xiaoping, who was a devoted Communist but also a strong supporter of a strong state, invented a method of using the achievements of the bourgeois market economy to accelerate the development of socialism, increase people’s prosperity, and speed up the scientific and technological dash into the future. Thanks to this invention, wrote Chikin and Prokhanov, China became an economic giant and a socialist superpower, and socialism as an historical system could continue its advance in the world. At the same time, in the view of the authors, the role of the state was eliminated in the Soviet Union, and the “freed blind liberal forces annulled the colossal achievements of the Soviet people, which, by the 1990s, had accumulated enormous material and intellectual reaches, scientific and social projects that were to lead our society into the future on the verge of the centuries.” According to Chikin and Prokhanov, Russian disasters were a result of ignoring the Chinese experience:

A handful of adventurers, alien to the “state idea,” ignoring the Chinese experience and blindly copying the West, drove the country to the abyss of liberal catastrophe, destroyed a great society, and left only ashes from the 70 years of people’s work, which thieves and occupants are plundering. The People’s patriotic movement, stirring up the people to resist the demolishers, does not forget for a minute the idea of a strong state, people’s justice, and the kind of social future that Deng Xiaoping pointed out in China to the whole world.41

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