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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... Political Style 2. Politics and Religion: The Divorce of State and Society 3. Reason and Progress: Peter and Catherine 4. Reaction and Revolt: The Imperial Dead End 5. Culture, Character, Psyche: A Literary Excursion Part II: The ...
... Political Style 2. Politics and Religion: The Divorce of State and Society 3. Reason and Progress: Peter and Catherine 4. Reaction and Revolt: The Imperial Dead End 5. Culture, Character, Psyche: A Literary Excursion Part II: The ...
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... political-juridical” school of Russian historiography, which developed initially in the nineteenth century. How and why it was that the state played so crucial a part in that country's history, both under the tsars and again under ...
... political-juridical” school of Russian historiography, which developed initially in the nineteenth century. How and why it was that the state played so crucial a part in that country's history, both under the tsars and again under ...
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... political impunity, it grew increasingly insensitive and inflexible, and its inability to adjust itself to changing conditions aggravated its travail and its ultimate failure. Russia suffered in the modern world a kind of retardation ...
... political impunity, it grew increasingly insensitive and inflexible, and its inability to adjust itself to changing conditions aggravated its travail and its ultimate failure. Russia suffered in the modern world a kind of retardation ...
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... politics as well, it would undermine the indispensable tradition of political authoritarianism—the hitherto unique agency of progress, strength, and security. It was an ugly dilemma, but the Soviet experiment promised delivery from the ...
... politics as well, it would undermine the indispensable tradition of political authoritarianism—the hitherto unique agency of progress, strength, and security. It was an ugly dilemma, but the Soviet experiment promised delivery from the ...
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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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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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