The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It Audiobook (Free)

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Russia can be an exceptional country, the largest in the globe. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, excellent and flawed. What makes we so scared of it?

Over and over, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher degrees of cunning, malevolence and brutality. Yet the country has generally been a crucial ally, not least against Napoleon and in both world wars. We admire its music and its own writers. We luxurious praise over the Russian spirit. And still we think about Russia as a unique menace. The facts about this amazing country that consistently provokes such extreme responses? And why is this so dangerous?

Ranging from the earliest times for this, Indicate B. Smith’s remarkable new book is normally a history of the ‘Russia Stress’. Whether ally or foe, superpower or declining state, Russia grips our creativity and fuels our anxieties unlike some other nation. This book displays how background itself gives a clearer watch and a better future.