Retro Life – Life Under the Dome of Soviet History (The Third Article)

In the third final part of the article, the author analyzes the forms and ways of Soviet history completion. The conclusion is that its “Being towards death” (Heidegger) is implemented in the form of a revolution that acquires “death” during Thermidor. And then it disengages its ability to be, its own “Being of death” (Heidegger) in the form of the Thermidorian Reaction. The article thoroughly explores how once (1991) after losing its history Soviet history creates its approximation – the Dome – with the help of sovereign, vertical and free power. How does the life covered by the Dome and tortured by “historical disease” become Retro-life with the help of such retro orientations as Counterrevolution, restoration, and revanchism? The author concludes that the destruction of a single life temporariness, the annihilation of temporalities by rapture and modes of being temporal deprive Soviet history and Retro-life of their historicity and meaning.