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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... agriculture. If modern Russia is notorious for the poverty of its agriculture, Kievan Russia was quite different. Kiev is the heart of Ukraine. Of the four conditions of a rich premodern agriculture—long growing season (southerly ...
... agriculture. If modern Russia is notorious for the poverty of its agriculture, Kievan Russia was quite different. Kiev is the heart of Ukraine. Of the four conditions of a rich premodern agriculture—long growing season (southerly ...
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... agricultural plain whose frontiers were an open invitation to movement, penetration, and invasion. Its internal structure sacrificed the demands of order to the demands of freedom. When put to the test, it produced more freedom than it ...
... agricultural plain whose frontiers were an open invitation to movement, penetration, and invasion. Its internal structure sacrificed the demands of order to the demands of freedom. When put to the test, it produced more freedom than it ...
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... agriculture and commerce was wrecked. A deep depression set in. A land of cities became a land overwhelmingly rural. The consciousness of the experience is still alive in such contemporary works of art as the novels of Dmitrii Balashev ...
... agriculture and commerce was wrecked. A deep depression set in. A land of cities became a land overwhelmingly rural. The consciousness of the experience is still alive in such contemporary works of art as the novels of Dmitrii Balashev ...
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... agricultural conditions in the north were infinitely inferior to those in the south. Of the four conditions favorable to primitive agriculture, the move north entailed deterioration in all but one. The growing season was shorter. The ...
... agricultural conditions in the north were infinitely inferior to those in the south. Of the four conditions favorable to primitive agriculture, the move north entailed deterioration in all but one. The growing season was shorter. The ...
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... agricultural economy—could afford the luxuries of freedom and anarchy that had condemned Kiev. In sum, Ivan III, a consummately cunning and deliberately devious prince, lacking practical precedents useful to him, devised imaginatively ...
... agricultural economy—could afford the luxuries of freedom and anarchy that had condemned Kiev. In sum, Ivan III, a consummately cunning and deliberately devious prince, lacking practical precedents useful to him, devised imaginatively ...
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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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