How does dialectics manifest in Russian thinking about war and peace and why Russia perceives the world the way it does?

Russian military thought is often characterized to be dialectical by its nature – an idea that has persistently remained in understanding about war and peace even after the dissolution of Soviet Union. However, despite the substantive research on Marxist-Leninist philosophy, the process of dialectics is often not sufficiently illustrated in the context of Russian way of understanding war and politics. If dialectics is still prevalent in Russian perception of war and peace, analysing this issue from the dialectical point of view would help us to understand better why Russia perceives the world the way it does. This perspective offers thus one alternative alongside for example Soviet system thinking to study Russian idea of war, peace and politics. This research pursues to uncover what is actually meant when we perceive war as a dialectical phenomenon. The research questions are: 1.How does dialectics manifest in Russian thinking about war and peace in the context of the larger geopolitical struggle? 2.How can dialectical perspective help us to understand why Russia perceives the world the way it does?