But ideology is unavailable to Russia and China, which have renounced, in the first case, and effectively abandoned, in the second, orthodox Marxism-Leninism (and in China, Maoism as well). ..…

Its origins date to 988 AD, Belarus, and European parts of Russia.. ... Ukraine was caught between two powerful neighbors with opposing religious identities to East, Orthodox Russia, and to West, Catholic Poland-Lithuania.. ..…