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 was quite different. Kiev is the heart of Ukraine. Of the four conditions of a rich premodern agriculture—long growing season (southerly location), rich soil, open prairie (steppe), abundant moisture—Kiev had all but the last. The.
... Russia was quite different. Kiev is the heart of Ukraine. Of the four conditions of a rich premodern agriculture—long growing season (southerly location), rich soil, open prairie (steppe), abundant moisture—Kiev had all but the last. The.
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... Ukraine was depopulated. It became for several centuries not quite a no-man's-land but a “wild field” (dikoe pole), a wilderness, a land of itinerant fugitives, of Cossack desperadoes, pirates on horseback. It was a kind of Wild East ...
... Ukraine was depopulated. It became for several centuries not quite a no-man's-land but a “wild field” (dikoe pole), a wilderness, a land of itinerant fugitives, of Cossack desperadoes, pirates on horseback. It was a kind of Wild East ...
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... Ukraine, to Poland, or to hide in the woods. A shortage of labor developed, and the service gentry had trouble keeping peasants enough to work its lands while it went about the serious business of war. The problem was exacerbated by the ...
... Ukraine, to Poland, or to hide in the woods. A shortage of labor developed, and the service gentry had trouble keeping peasants enough to work its lands while it went about the serious business of war. The problem was exacerbated by the ...
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... Ukraine (the left bank of the Dnieper River), that part of the ancient Russian patrimony most intimately in contact with the West and most subject to its influence. Ukraine, unlike Russia, had been administered directly by the Mongols ...
... Ukraine (the left bank of the Dnieper River), that part of the ancient Russian patrimony most intimately in contact with the West and most subject to its influence. Ukraine, unlike Russia, had been administered directly by the Mongols ...
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... Ukraine was annexed from Poland in 1667. Thus by the dawn of the eighteenth century, the bulk of the ancient patrimony of Kiev had been gathered—in the east a great deal more—and it remained to claim right-bank Ukraine, east central ...
... Ukraine was annexed from Poland in 1667. Thus by the dawn of the eighteenth century, the bulk of the ancient patrimony of Kiev had been gathered—in the east a great deal more—and it remained to claim right-bank Ukraine, east central ...
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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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