Asiatic NeighboursVanguard Books, 1996 - 315 sider |
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Side xiii
Septimus Smet Thorburn. Russia : Nihilists ; Pan - Slavists - Russo - Turkish war , 1876-78— Autocracy weakens Russia - Return to despotism - Alexander II . murdered - Russia under quasi - martial law - Misery of the people - Church and ...
Septimus Smet Thorburn. Russia : Nihilists ; Pan - Slavists - Russo - Turkish war , 1876-78— Autocracy weakens Russia - Return to despotism - Alexander II . murdered - Russia under quasi - martial law - Misery of the people - Church and ...
Side xvi
... Russia's raison d'être in Central Asia - Russia's position strong for annoyance already - John Bull becoming reassured again . CHAPTER XIII . THE END OF A BUFFER STATE . ―― - Questions repeated - Why Russia should advance - Consequences ...
... Russia's raison d'être in Central Asia - Russia's position strong for annoyance already - John Bull becoming reassured again . CHAPTER XIII . THE END OF A BUFFER STATE . ―― - Questions repeated - Why Russia should advance - Consequences ...
Side 54
... Russia is still sunk in medieval darkness , a sort of China in Europe . There is nothing beautiful , nothing joyous , in Russia . As the land is , so are its people — uninter- esting , monotonous , undeveloped . Flat immensity ...
... Russia is still sunk in medieval darkness , a sort of China in Europe . There is nothing beautiful , nothing joyous , in Russia . As the land is , so are its people — uninter- esting , monotonous , undeveloped . Flat immensity ...
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