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1) A short history of Russia: how the world's largest country invented itself, from the pagans to Putin
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethnic group, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it has been subject to invasion by outsiders, from Vikings to Mongols, from Napoleon's French to Hitler's Germans. In order to forge an identity, it has mythologized its past to unite its people and to signal strength to outsiders ... Mark Galeotti explores the history of this fascinating, glorious, desperate and exasperating...
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