Hi! Thanks for considering me for your project. I am actually a bit of an enthusiast for Russian culture, so I would be really excited to get to write a few articles about it. In particular, I am most well-versed in the literature, history, religion, and philosophy of the country. I'll paste a sample of an essay I wrote in college about such a topic below, so you can get a feel for my abilities and style.
Hope to hear back soon!
~Heather Muessle
The difficulty, of course, becomes that much in fundamental Marxism disagrees with the tenets of Russian thought described above. Where Russians focus on the soul, Marxists focus on capital, labor, and material goods. Where Russians are mystics and have a deeply Orthodox tradition, Marxists detest religion as an institution. Compromises, then, had to be made between the socialist and revolutionary groups that were forming within more urban areas of Russian society, and the more traditional groups that made up the peasant class, the overwhelming bulk of the Russian population. This is where humanitarianism becomes the most important. Though the intentions of men such as Trotsky and Lenin can always be called into question, as well as the amount of pure ‘idealism’ they were really operating under, many individuals really did seem to act out of pure concern for the exploited workers.