On methodology and general concepts. The time of troubles: 1606 1612, and the rest of the seventeenth century. The devastating course of Peter's "modernization": the eighteenth century age of lost opportunities. Romantic Decembrists and pessimistic philosophers: the dualism of the first generation Russian intelligentsia. A decisive junction: the epoch of Alexander II. After the catastrophe: the penultimate Romanov reign. The evening glow. The inverted pyramid. Stalinism: high noon of system-centeredness. After Stalin: the system yields to fatigue. At the new crossroads
Originaltitel: Drama rossiĭskoĭ politicheskoĭ istorii
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