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In this ambitious book, Kevin M. F. Platt focuses on a cruel paradox central to Russian history: that the price of progress has so often been the traumatic suffering of society at the hands of the state. The reigns of Ivan IV (the Terrible) and Peter the Great are the most vivid exemplars of this phenomenon in the pre-Soviet period. Both rulers have been alternately lionized for great achievements and despised for the extraordinary violence of their reigns. In many accounts, the balance of prais
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- Author
- Platt, Kevin M. F.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801460951
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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