The Russian Tragedy: The Burden of History

From: Canadian Slavonic Papers | Date: March 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Hugh Ragsdale. The Russian Tragedy: The Burden of History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. xix, 306 pp. Notes. Index. $61.95, cloth. $21.95, paper.

Few historians today have the expertise or the temerity to write a one-volume book covering one thousand years of Russian history. Hugh Ragsdale, a historian of imperial Russia, has attempted just that and must be commended for the attempt, even as one marvels at his flouting of all modern academic conventions. Ragsdale's aim is unabashedly presentist. The Russian Tragedy is meant "to explain the crisis of the Soviet state and the failure of the ...

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