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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... people” and others in Turgenev's Sportsman's Sketches, Tolstoy's Power of Darkness, and Chekhov's “Peasants”; the gentry in Gonchararov's Oblomov, Turgenev's Rudin, and Chekhov's Cherry Orchard; the merchant class in a satire by ...
... people” and others in Turgenev's Sportsman's Sketches, Tolstoy's Power of Darkness, and Chekhov's “Peasants”; the gentry in Gonchararov's Oblomov, Turgenev's Rudin, and Chekhov's Cherry Orchard; the merchant class in a satire by ...
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... people's path through history has been a thorny one. We can't help but see this as we follow here such tragic episodes as the two centuries of Mongol dominion early on, the terroristic reign of Ivan the Terrible in the sixteenth century ...
... people's path through history has been a thorny one. We can't help but see this as we follow here such tragic episodes as the two centuries of Mongol dominion early on, the terroristic reign of Ivan the Terrible in the sixteenth century ...
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... people in their own fate: it deprived the nation of its voice. The nation served the state rather than the state the nation. In the process, the people grew unaccustomed—and unable—to take their fate into their own hands. As the ever ...
... people in their own fate: it deprived the nation of its voice. The nation served the state rather than the state the nation. In the process, the people grew unaccustomed—and unable—to take their fate into their own hands. As the ever ...
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... People), Poliane (Field People), Sloviane (People of the Word?), and a dozen or so others. According to their earliest historical record, the venerable Primary Chronicle, there was disorder in the land, and hence, they invited the ...
... People), Poliane (Field People), Sloviane (People of the Word?), and a dozen or so others. According to their earliest historical record, the venerable Primary Chronicle, there was disorder in the land, and hence, they invited the ...
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... people, apart from military organization, a lower level of culture than their victims exemplified. Neither did the ... people who were never Latin and Catholic. To the ethnologist, the Russians are an Indo-European people. To the ...
... people, apart from military organization, a lower level of culture than their victims exemplified. Neither did the ... people who were never Latin and Catholic. To the ethnologist, the Russians are an Indo-European people. To the ...
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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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