We present studies of “continuities” and “ruptures” in modern academic discourse and in an updated format, gravitating toward “empirically nuanced” tools for analyzing multiple historical temporalities. This is where we can find an element of inescapable continuity. At the same time, the imperial nature of the modern post-Soviet Russian core permits us to say that the imperial logic has survived. The irreversible disintegration of post-Soviet space into separate nationalizing states became possible only toward the end of the twentieth century. In particular, the Bolsheviks purposefully engaged in dismantling the tsarist efforts to build a great ethnic-Russian nation to stand at the center of the Russian Empire’s nationalities policy. It rejected a number of key elements of the sociopolitical project that underlay the nationalizing tsarist empire and introduced radically new political and social principles for organizing that space. I expect that disabling that option will get rid of the warning message. Just right-click the game in your library, select ‘properties’ and deselect the third option. At the same time, the Soviet Union could not have been more different than the Russian Empire. If you’re only looking to get rid of the warning and do not care to use cloud storage, it’s possible to just disable cloud storage for AoE2DE on Steam.

In the still highly politicized question of rupture or continuity between the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, elements of continuity are not hard to find, nor should this be a surprise, since a new state arose in the same geographical space and made use of the economic, intellectual, and demographic resources inherited from the Russian Empire.

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