The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: too soon to talk of Echoes?

Morrison, Alexander Stephen

The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: too soon to talk of Echoes?

dc.contributor.author	Morrison, Alexander Stephen
dc.date.accessioned	2016-04-18T10:33:15Z
dc.date.available	2016-04-18T10:33:15Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	This paper is a rather general 'thought piece' in which I have unwisely allowed myself to speculate on some of the contemporary resonances of the Russian Imperial and Soviet past. I have not updated it since 2012, and in the nature of these things parts of it already look dated. As Sir Walter Raleigh put it when justifying the decision to write his 'History of the World' only about Antiquity 'Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.' My father discovered this twenty-four years ago when writing a biography of Boris Yeltsin, and I owe the quotation to him. n.b. the published version of this paper also includes an egregious factual error on the second page - the Treaty of Nerchinsk between Russia and Qing China of course dates to 1689, not 1657.	ru_RU
dc.identifier.citation	Alexander Stephen Morrison; 2015; The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: too soon to talk of Echoes?	ru_RU
dc.identifier.uri	http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1414
dc.language.iso	en	ru_RU
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/	*
dc.subject	Russian Studies	ru_RU
dc.subject	Soviet History	ru_RU
dc.subject	Central Asia (History)	ru_RU
dc.subject	History of the USSR	ru_RU
dc.subject	Central Eurasian Studies	ru_RU
dc.title	The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: too soon to talk of Echoes?	ru_RU
dc.type	Article	ru_RU