The Russian Tragedy: The Burden of History: The Burden of HistoryRoutledge, 16 sept 2016 - 322 páginas This work provides an interpretive history of Russia from earliest times to today, recounting the story of Russia's past. It discusses Russia's strengths and weaknesses as a civilization, and the challenges posed by the contemporary effort to remake Russia. |
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... France, 1917 in Russia—may bring even greater misery. I offer here a very personal interpretation of the awful fate of modern Russia. I emphasize the decisive perspective, the historical one. Providence has distributed her favors to the ...
... France, 1917 in Russia—may bring even greater misery. I offer here a very personal interpretation of the awful fate of modern Russia. I emphasize the decisive perspective, the historical one. Providence has distributed her favors to the ...
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... France—or they may bring scourges—as Adolf Hitler proved in Germany. The Russians are now searching their past in an effort to recover its blessings, not its scourges. This is a book about the truculence of tradition, the reasonableness ...
... France—or they may bring scourges—as Adolf Hitler proved in Germany. The Russians are now searching their past in an effort to recover its blessings, not its scourges. This is a book about the truculence of tradition, the reasonableness ...
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... France and England. As they shed their more primordial habits, they would rule Normandy, Sicily, and England— and Russia. The Varangians came early to Novgorod and Kiev, the “mothers of Russian cities,” and their influence in Russia ...
... France and England. As they shed their more primordial habits, they would rule Normandy, Sicily, and England— and Russia. The Varangians came early to Novgorod and Kiev, the “mothers of Russian cities,” and their influence in Russia ...
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... France was engaged in the Habsburg–Valois (later Habsburg–Bourbon) rivalry, the Habsburgs of the time occupying the thrones of Spain in the south and of Germany in the north. The Habsburgs of Germany were caught in the same fashion ...
... France was engaged in the Habsburg–Valois (later Habsburg–Bourbon) rivalry, the Habsburgs of the time occupying the thrones of Spain in the south and of Germany in the north. The Habsburgs of Germany were caught in the same fashion ...
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... France of Louis XIV, but even a cursory comparison shows that absolutism was as real in Russia as it was a vain pretense in France. Seventeenthcentury France abounded in institutions of corporate power and privilege and exemption from ...
... France of Louis XIV, but even a cursory comparison shows that absolutism was as real in Russia as it was a vain pretense in France. Seventeenthcentury France abounded in institutions of corporate power and privilege and exemption from ...
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Peter and Catherine | |
The Imperial Dead | |
A Literary Excursion | |
Reform or Revolution 19001917 | |
The Awkward World of Leninism 19171928 | |
The Brave New World of Stalinism 19281953 | |
Reform or RevolutionAgain 19531991 | |
A Cautious Prognosis | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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