The Empress and the English Doctor by Lucy Ward ruth mclennan Its impressive scope and lasting

Its impressive scope and lasting insights have made it a foundational text in Russian studies

Islam has been swept up into Russia's broader search for identity

the work offers a balance between ‘the communist desire for a perfectly-designed world against the real world of human competitiveness and inequality’

to see Russia without Putin

After describing accounts of pre-perestroika persecution

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