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Rulers and victims : the Russians in the Soviet Union by Geoffrey A. Hosking is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rulers and victims : the Russians in the Soviet Union about?
Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union "Russia." Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind of Russia emerged? In this illuminating book, Geoffrey Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians. One of the keys lies in messianism--the idea rooted in Russian Orthodoxy that the Russians were a "chosen people." The communi
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Geoffrey A. Hosking
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674021785
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Sociology, History
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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