The Drama of Russian Political History: System Against Individuality

By Alexander V. Obolonsky and Vincent Ostrom

According to Alexander V. Obolonsky, Russian history and life are full of paradoxes, most of them rather sad. Why, he asks, have the Russians, who have not only been endowed by nature with enormous natural, human, and intellectual resources, but who have also developed a great literary and scientific heritage and made significant contributions to world civilization, proved unable to arrange the conditions of their own existence to realize their great potential? "What fundamental deficiency," he wonders, "made this great anomaly possible?"

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585442240
• ISBN13: 9781585442249
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 9.5"