Russia under western eyes : from the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum /
"This is not a book about Russia as such; it is a book about Europe as a whole, offering an original perspective that reconceptualizes Western history. Here modern Europe is depicted as a West-East cultural gradient in which the central and eastern portions respond to the Atlantic West's c...
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Cambridge, MA :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
©1999.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction: The Russian riddle
- Russia as enlightened despotism: 1700-1815
- Russia as oriental despotism: 1815-1855
- Russia as Europe regained: 1855-1914
- War and revolution: 1914-1917
- Through the Soviet-Russian looking-glass, and what the west found there: 1917-1991
- Conclusion.