Russia myths and realities
An expert historian and former ambassador to Moscow unlocks fact from fiction to reveal what lies at the root of the Russian story. Churchill remarked that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. That has become an excuse for intellectual laziness. Russia is not all that different...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Profile Books
2022
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| Edition: | First published in Great Britain in 2022 |
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991005384679708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Nation, myth, history
- Birth of a nation
- The horsemen of the apocalypse
- The rise and fall of Muscovy
- A European great power - at last
- Empire and its victims
- The accursed questions
- The bloody half-century
- A geopolitical catastrophe?
- Vladimir Putin - mythomane
- Epilogue: Rewriting history
