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'Wonder Confronts Certainty' — A Conversation with Professor Gary Saul Morson about the Deep Mysteries of Great Russian Literature

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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Why Russia Is Different From Western Europe

"This isn't like the literature of any other, we'll call Russia European in the sense," he says. "It's something that can be explained only by Russian experience." He offers a historical argument for why Russia is so different from rest of Europe. The degree of authoritarianism in Russia was so extreme that people let's say used to Austrian authoritarianism couldn't imaginesomething like this, right? When they were shocked by it.

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