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Discuss why Russia’s trajectory of historical development has been distinct from that of Europe. In 1939, Winston Churchill had remarked: “it [Russia] is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”. With such a simple statement Churchill had managed to brilliantly capsulise the great riddle that Russia has been throughout her existence for her … Read more

THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. Answer– The outbreak of the First World War is one of the most repeatedly debated subjects in world history. The historical debate has been intensely affected by the prevailing political climate and by the urge to find out who was primarily responsible. The official report on the origins … Read more

Discuss why Russia’s trajectory of historical development has been distinct from that of Europe. In 1939, Winston Churchill had remarked: “it [Russia] is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”. With such a simple statement Churchill had managed to brilliantly capsulise the great riddle that Russia has been throughout her existence for her … Read more

The Emancipation of the Russian Serfs, 1861: A Charter of Freedom or an Act of Betrayal? MICHAEL LYNCH Michael Lynch takes a fresh look at the key reform of 19th-century Russia. In 1861 serfdom, the system which tied the Russian peasants irrevocably to their landlords, was abolished at the Tsar’s imperial command. Four years later, … Read more

Russian socialism Socialism simply may be seen as a social and economic theory of social organization advocating state ownership and control over means of production, distribution, and exchange. Russian socialism has a particular significance because, according to some, it actually succeeded (well at least the Bolsheviks thought they were establishing a socialist state). There were … Read more

Q: The Slavophiles and Westernizers were both radical, each in their own way. Discuss. This essay attempts to examine a particular historical moment in nineteenth-century Russian thought: the period between the late 1830s and 1850s, when the existing divisions within the ‘intelligentsia’ came to be reconfigured along arguments that were polemically known as ‘Slavophile’ and … Read more

Discuss the relationship between Romanticism and politics in the early 19th century. The Europe that emerged after the Napoleonic wars was an unsettled one. The French and Industrial revolutions had caused profound changes in men’s outlook, and had broadened the political horizon. The ancien regime would never again be seen as the only possible form … Read more