Как замечает Хархордин, за всю историю России периоды развития гуманитарных наук были редки и недолгосрочны. Более-менее приличная интернациональность и обмен знанием существовали в 1991—2001, и немного после 2010.

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Beyond the two existing strategies for exporting the Russian humanities and social sciences (universalization and moving away from area studies) and the two star models (Lotman and Bakhtin), what can Russia offer when it comes to scholarship of global relevance? I would contend that there are five main areas in which Russians have made topical contributions to the global world of the humanities. First, there are the studies of the horrors and atrocities of Russian history—the country’s best-selling export item, some would suggest.