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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... West. Always the outcome has been another breakdown, another Time of Troubles, and then another restoration of authoritarian statehood. And this brings us to the author's concluding prognosis. He wisely abstains from predicting that ...
... West. Always the outcome has been another breakdown, another Time of Troubles, and then another restoration of authoritarian statehood. And this brings us to the author's concluding prognosis. He wisely abstains from predicting that ...
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... Western Europe. The West was the modern scourge of Russia, the strategic source of a mortal security threat. At the same time, it was both the philosophical and the technological source of economic and strategic salvation. Yet if the ...
... Western Europe. The West was the modern scourge of Russia, the strategic source of a mortal security threat. At the same time, it was both the philosophical and the technological source of economic and strategic salvation. Yet if the ...
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... West by destroying bourgeois civilization itself. Paradoxically, Gorbachev's perestroika, like the revolutions that preceded it, accelerated imitation of the West in order to gain the strength to reject the Western model in the long run ...
... West by destroying bourgeois civilization itself. Paradoxically, Gorbachev's perestroika, like the revolutions that preceded it, accelerated imitation of the West in order to gain the strength to reject the Western model in the long run ...
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... Western technicians Vasilii III (1505–33) Ivan IV the Terrible (1533–84) Establishment of standing army Compulsory gentry state service Origins of serfdom Oprichnina Fedor I (1584–98), end of dynasty of Riurik Time of Troubles: 1598 ...
... Western technicians Vasilii III (1505–33) Ivan IV the Terrible (1533–84) Establishment of standing army Compulsory gentry state service Origins of serfdom Oprichnina Fedor I (1584–98), end of dynasty of Riurik Time of Troubles: 1598 ...
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... Western Dvina—and south into the Black Sea and the Caspian—the Dnieper, the Don, and the Volga. Short overland portages provide a nearly complete “river road” over the whole route. In the year 912, when Kiev dispatched envoys to draw up ...
... Western Dvina—and south into the Black Sea and the Caspian—the Dnieper, the Don, and the Volga. Short overland portages provide a nearly complete “river road” over the whole route. In the year 912, when Kiev dispatched envoys to draw up ...
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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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