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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... Russia and the Russian Political Style 2. Politics and Religion: The Divorce of State and Society 3. Reason and Progress: Peter and Catherine 4. Reaction and Revolt: The Imperial Dead End 5. Culture, Character, Psyche: A Literary ...
... Russia and the Russian Political Style 2. Politics and Religion: The Divorce of State and Society 3. Reason and Progress: Peter and Catherine 4. Reaction and Revolt: The Imperial Dead End 5. Culture, Character, Psyche: A Literary ...
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... Russian historical process, the book takes due account of Russian culture and society as a significant part of the story. In one richly rewarding chapter the author takes us on a “literary excursion” that shows the classics of Russian ...
... Russian historical process, the book takes due account of Russian culture and society as a significant part of the story. In one richly rewarding chapter the author takes us on a “literary excursion” that shows the classics of Russian ...
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... society as well.” The story is best ended on this sensible note of uncertainty, and yet with the hope that this time, at long last, Russia will emerge into a non-tragic twenty-first century as her invariably fascinating history proceeds ...
... society as well.” The story is best ended on this sensible note of uncertainty, and yet with the hope that this time, at long last, Russia will emerge into a non-tragic twenty-first century as her invariably fascinating history proceeds ...
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... Russia survived and preserved its independence. As time passed, however, the state absorbed more and more of the conventional functions of civil society. In the long run, it circumscribed the role of the people in their own fate: it ...
... Russia survived and preserved its independence. As time passed, however, the state absorbed more and more of the conventional functions of civil society. In the long run, it circumscribed the role of the people in their own fate: it ...
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... society was more advanced than that of contemporary Scandinavia. Kiev had a written literature, a written code of law, and the coining of money before these things appeared in Scandinavia. Ancient Russian borrowed words readily from ...
... society was more advanced than that of contemporary Scandinavia. Kiev had a written literature, a written code of law, and the coining of money before these things appeared in Scandinavia. Ancient Russian borrowed words readily 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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