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On Understanding Russia

A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Leonid I. Strakhovsky
Leonid I. Strakhovsky*
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Although events since the end of the last war have brought the problem of understanding Russia into sharp projection, the problem itself is not new nor is it confined to the period of the Soviet dictatorship. From the time of Possevinus' and Herberstein's accounts of Moscovite Russia under Tsar Ivan IV, called the Terrible, to contemporary reports on Soviet Russia, the Russian state and the Russian people seem to have been to the Western mind something from a different world. Therefore, from the earliest time of contacts with Russia in the so-called modern and contemporary periods of history, the Western world set up different standards from its own in order to try to understand this vast country.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 6 , Issue 1-2 , May 1947 , pp. 181 - 199
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1947

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