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1) Russia
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Series
Eyewitness books volume 73
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
An overview of the land, people, history, and culture of Russia from its earliest days to the present.
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
'War and Peace' has been described as the Illiad and the Odyssey of the Russian people, with just cause. This is a work that speaks to the meaning and hope of life. Tolstoy's realism forced him to strip away much of the glorification of war and show the realities. Yet Tolstoy presents the events of 1812 as a moral crusade, and that the Russians won against the Napoleonic onslaught because of their adherence to simple, good and true virtues (as much...
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