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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... The inauspicious environment of Russia's historical circumstances—economic and cultural lag on the one hand, strategic insecurity on the other—encouraged, perhaps demanded, the evolution of a political absolutism, a leviathan Preface.
... The inauspicious environment of Russia's historical circumstances—economic and cultural lag on the one hand, strategic insecurity on the other—encouraged, perhaps demanded, the evolution of a political absolutism, a leviathan Preface.
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... cultural outlook a unique reflection of that experience, and the attitudes of Russians have inevitably shaped their destiny as surely as have their material circumstances. If we are to appreciate impartially their own view of the world ...
... cultural outlook a unique reflection of that experience, and the attitudes of Russians have inevitably shaped their destiny as surely as have their material circumstances. If we are to appreciate impartially their own view of the world ...
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... –96) Conquests in Poland and Turkey Deliberate Westernization Cultural advancement, Age of Enlightenment Paul (1796–1801) Napoleonic wars Political reaction Alexander I (1801–25) Cautious, tentative reform War of Chronology.
... –96) Conquests in Poland and Turkey Deliberate Westernization Cultural advancement, Age of Enlightenment Paul (1796–1801) Napoleonic wars Political reaction Alexander I (1801–25) Cautious, tentative reform War of Chronology.
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... cultural level of Kievan 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 ...
... cultural level of Kievan 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 ...
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... cultural frontier. It remains so today, and it is one of the most enduring and painful problems of modern Russia. The persistence of the Norman theory undoubtedly owes much to the fact that both Westerners and Russians, however ...
... cultural frontier. It remains so today, and it is one of the most enduring and painful problems of modern Russia. The persistence of the Norman theory undoubtedly owes much to the fact that both Westerners and Russians, however ...
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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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