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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... events in Russia's history and vivid portrayals of outstanding Russian rulers such as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great in the eighteenth century as well as Tsar Alexander I in the early nineteenth and Tsar-Reformer Alexander II ...
... events in Russia's history and vivid portrayals of outstanding Russian rulers such as Peter the Great and Catherine the Great in the eighteenth century as well as Tsar Alexander I in the early nineteenth and Tsar-Reformer Alexander II ...
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... event, when Kiev was founded in the ninth century, there were no nations in Europe; there were only tribes. Europe had no East and West in the modern sense of those terms. When the Norman theory was formulated, nations were present, and ...
... event, when Kiev was founded in the ninth century, there were no nations in Europe; there were only tribes. Europe had no East and West in the modern sense of those terms. When the Norman theory was formulated, nations were present, and ...
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... event. They made of Russia what was in effect a vassal state, and they left it to be administered directly by Russians themselves so long as those Russians fulfilled their obligations to their suzerain at Sarai. As in China, the Mongols ...
... event. They made of Russia what was in effect a vassal state, and they left it to be administered directly by Russians themselves so long as those Russians fulfilled their obligations to their suzerain at Sarai. As in China, the Mongols ...
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... event, to observe a pentagonal configuration of the distribution of power in the world. Moving from west to east, there is the United States, a sometimes coherently semiunited Europe, the USSR/CIS/Russia, China, and Japan. Once upon a ...
... event, to observe a pentagonal configuration of the distribution of power in the world. Moving from west to east, there is the United States, a sometimes coherently semiunited Europe, the USSR/CIS/Russia, China, and Japan. Once upon a ...
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... event, it disappeared—no Parliament, no Estates General, no Diet of Poland or the Holy Roman Empire. Its appearance is intriguing, but its significance is not clear. By the end of the seventeenth century, Russian absolutism, straining.
... event, it disappeared—no Parliament, no Estates General, no Diet of Poland or the Holy Roman Empire. Its appearance is intriguing, but its significance is not clear. By the end of the seventeenth century, Russian absolutism, straining.
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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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