Russia under Western Eyes

From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum

Author Martin Malia

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As the dust clears from the fall of Communism, will Western eyes see Russia, the unclaimed orphan of Western history or Russia as she truly is, a perplexing but undeniable member of the European family? A dazzling work of intellectual history by a world-renowned scholar, spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, this book gives us a clear and sweeping view of Russia not as an eternal barbarian menace but as an outermost, if laggard, member in the continuum of European nations.

The Russian troika hurtles through these pages. The Spectre, modernity's belief in salvation by revolutionary ideology, haunts them. Alice's looking glass greets us at this turn and that. Throughout, Martin Malia's inspired…

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April 11, 2000

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Martin Malia was Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917–1991.