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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Braithwaite, Rodric, 1932- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Profile Books 2022
Edición:First published in Great Britain in 2022
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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