The Concept of Passionarity in Russia

Cultural darwinism doesn't recommend itself only to novelists or poets. In russia, it has become a concept familiar to many political scientists group mentalities and in variant forms of bio social organization. The idea that civilize tion is an organic entity is similar to spengler's belief that it is an organism that experiences life cycles from birth to death. Like spengler, there are russian nationalists who feel that their own civilization is measured by the seasons and pace of growth. And the more pessimistic feeling that winter is already setting in, are given to dreaming of one heroic last act.