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The National Narrative
How to propel society forward — or backward
In Political Order & Political Decay, Francis Fukuyama talks about a national narrative. It is a political tool for citizens to have a common understanding of their history, which then leads to a common understanding of its future. With this common understanding, the people become more unified, thus enabling the nation to accomplish many great things.
In these two previous articles of this series, I talk about the national narrative of the Russians. This narrative tells Russians that they have great part of a great destiny.
In essence, the Russians had their own version of Manifest Destiny. That narrative enables Russians to run roughshod over the many other ethnic groups that fell under the Russian domain. Good for Russians, not-so-good for everyone else.
