eBook - ePub

Russia

Name: Russia
ISBN: 9781639362899

Myths and Realities

Roderic Braithwaite,

252 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Russia

Myths and Realities

Roderic Braithwaite,

About this book

An expert historian and former ambassador to Moscow unlocks fact from fiction to reveal what lies at the root of the Russian story. Churchill remarked that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. That has become an excuse for intellectual laziness. Russia is not all that different from anywhere else. But you have to disentangle the factsfrom the myths created both by the Russians themselves and by those who dislike them. In this dynamic new history, Rodric Braithwaite—Russia expert and former ambassador to Moscow—does exactly that, unpicking fact from fiction to discover what lies at the root of the Russian story.Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders has been known as Rus, Muscovy, the Russian Empire, and the SovietUnion. Thirty years ago it was reinvented as the Russian Federation. Like the rest of us, the Russians constantly rewrite their history. They, too, omit episodes of national disgrace in favor of patriotic anecdotes, sometimes morerooted in myth than reality.Russia is not an enigma, but its past is violent, tragic, sometimes glorious, and always complicated.

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