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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... problem entirely from its own time and place. No one was more guilty of this mistake than Mikhail Gorbachev. Nearly as unsatisfactory, however, has been the work of my own colleagues, the historians. C. Vann Woodward has made the point ...
... problem entirely from its own time and place. No one was more guilty of this mistake than Mikhail Gorbachev. Nearly as unsatisfactory, however, has been the work of my own colleagues, the historians. C. Vann Woodward has made the point ...
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... problem. In Marxism Russia presumed for a time to have found an ironic solution: to dispose of the threat of the West by destroying bourgeois civilization itself. Paradoxically, Gorbachev's perestroika, like the revolutions that ...
... problem. In Marxism Russia presumed for a time to have found an ironic solution: to dispose of the threat of the West by destroying bourgeois civilization itself. Paradoxically, Gorbachev's perestroika, like the revolutions that ...
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... problems of modern Russia. The persistence of the Norman theory undoubtedly owes much to the fact that both Westerners and Russians, however offensive it is to the latter, find in it a kind of familiar description of the cultural ...
... problems of modern Russia. The persistence of the Norman theory undoubtedly owes much to the fact that both Westerners and Russians, however offensive it is to the latter, find in it a kind of familiar description of the cultural ...
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... problem of the Russians as perceived by Europe is to identify them as Asiatic and to cite the Mongol dominion as proof. “Scratch a Russian, find a Tatar.” It is not true. The Mongols did not settle among the Russians. Rather, they ...
... problem of the Russians as perceived by Europe is to identify them as Asiatic and to cite the Mongol dominion as proof. “Scratch a Russian, find a Tatar.” It is not true. The Mongols did not settle among the Russians. Rather, they ...
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... problem of modern Russian society and the enduring character of the modern Russian state. The move was motivated chiefly by considerations of security. It made good sense, putting both distance and trees between the Russians and the ...
... problem of modern Russian society and the enduring character of the modern Russian state. The move was motivated chiefly by considerations of security. It made good sense, putting both distance and trees between the Russians and 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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