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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... French around Nice could, six crops of carrots a year. The land was poor. Furthermore, the people were scattered over a vast hinterland without the roads, bridges, and canals of Western Europe. They were largely illiterate. They had no ...
... French around Nice could, six crops of carrots a year. The land was poor. Furthermore, the people were scattered over a vast hinterland without the roads, bridges, and canals of Western Europe. They were largely illiterate. They had no ...
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... French in the west and the Turks in the east. Poor little Prussia, exposed on all frontiers, a trivial state in the sixteenth century, became the power base of Frederick the Great and the cornerstone of the German Empire. Poland was ...
... French in the west and the Turks in the east. Poor little Prussia, exposed on all frontiers, a trivial state in the sixteenth century, became the power base of Frederick the Great and the cornerstone of the German Empire. Poland was ...
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... French revenue and more than half of French territory. In the seventeenth century, Louis XIV regularly negotiated the tax levies with the pays d'états.5 A principal source of French revenue was venality of patents of nobility and simony ...
... French revenue and more than half of French territory. In the seventeenth century, Louis XIV regularly negotiated the tax levies with the pays d'états.5 A principal source of French revenue was venality of patents of nobility and simony ...
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... French Revolution recognized the polymorphous diversity of these institutions, the irrational lack of uniformity among them, and began to reorganize them. The job was completed by Napoleon. In nineteenth-century France, no longer ...
... French Revolution recognized the polymorphous diversity of these institutions, the irrational lack of uniformity among them, and began to reorganize them. The job was completed by Napoleon. In nineteenth-century France, no longer ...
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... French theorist of monarchy writing in the early seventeenth century, condemned as unacceptable precisely the kind of government that the juridical school described in Russia: “Seignioral monarchs ... have both princely power and also ...
... French theorist of monarchy writing in the early seventeenth century, condemned as unacceptable precisely the kind of government that the juridical school described in Russia: “Seignioral monarchs ... have both princely power and also ...
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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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