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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... never set and the self-anointed guardian of the new world order are less sensitive to questions of cultural derivation and dependence than modern Russians are. Most of the experience of Kiev was far happier than the story of its origins ...
... never set and the self-anointed guardian of the new world order are less sensitive to questions of cultural derivation and dependence than modern Russians are. Most of the experience of Kiev was far happier than the story of its origins ...
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... never Latin and Catholic. To the ethnologist, the Russians are an Indo-European people. To the linguist, Russian is an Indo-European language. To the student of culture more generally, perhaps the anthropologist, there is something at ...
... never Latin and Catholic. To the ethnologist, the Russians are an Indo-European people. To the linguist, Russian is an Indo-European language. To the student of culture more generally, perhaps the anthropologist, there is something at ...
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... never was in Western Europe, by a sovereign prince. Furthermore, there was little of reciprocity about it. The peasant sharecroppers found themselves bound to the land that they had formerly worked, and the state required the landlord ...
... never was in Western Europe, by a sovereign prince. Furthermore, there was little of reciprocity about it. The peasant sharecroppers found themselves bound to the land that they had formerly worked, and the state required the landlord ...
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... never convoked again. In any 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 ...
... never convoked again. In any 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 ...
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... never erased its rivals, and it never converted them into a subservient service class. In Western Europe, it was society and its institutions, supported by tradition and Roman law, that evolved, defined, and, above all, limited the ...
... never erased its rivals, and it never converted them into a subservient service class. In Western Europe, it was society and its institutions, supported by tradition and Roman law, that evolved, defined, and, above all, limited the ...
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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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