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"After" Russian Post-Colonial Identity

Russia is after history. I will repeat it. Russia is after history. I invite you to read in this repetition two regimes that constitute Russian history, its identity, its chronotope, its "place" in time. One marks Russia's profound temporal lagging: its very being appears "after" history, (after the history of Europe, of other countries) has already happened, making it forever "behind" the movements of World History, making it forever, irrevocably, late. It is in that sense a country in which a belated interval of the "post," dictates all its "historical" modalities, a place-time "after" modernity. This statement opens up a possibility that Russia's history yet has a future. The other regime of this repeated statement would situate Russia outside history, before history occurred, in the realm where the temporality of World History has not even happened: in the realm of the Messianic promise, that will alone hurl Russia towards the historical, its full teleological fulfillment, "after" it and beyond. In this second sense, which is perhaps prior, Russia is still too early, forever young, untainted by historical time, since the clock of history measures time for countries, peoples or cultures completely alien to Russia's immemorial or futural temporality. The repetition itself, rhetorically, models this chronology whereby the iteration, a copy, say, of Europe, precedes the original. Russia's time, too late, yet to come.