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Russia's Struggle With Modernity 1815-1929
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ISBN: 1783330864 9781783330867 Year: 2013 Publisher: Luton : Andrews UK,

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In 1917 Czarist Russia collapsed during the catastrophe of the First World War, but the tensions that had accumulated inside the empire for a century due to the challenges that modernisation presented were the real seeds of her undoing. The 19th Century was a battle for the soul of Russia, and it decided whether she would embrace liberal democracy and industrialisation like her contemporaries in Europe, or whether she would retreat into the past. In fact, she did both, and the human legacy o...

The New Russia
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ISBN: 1315029456 1136870652 113687058X 0700716211 1306221188 9781136870651 9781136870583 9781315029450 9781136870729 9780700716210 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hoboken Taylor and Francis

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Provides full details of the many rapid changes in the Russian economy and the political system since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Covers the period up to 2000, offering a valuable guide to policies in the Putin era.

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