Mark Steinberg, “St. Petersburg: Fin de Siecle” (Yale UP, 2011)
Sep 18, 2012
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Public discourse in the final decade of Imperial Russia was dominated by images of darkness and dread. Discussions of “these times” and “times of trouble” captured the sense that Russians were living on the “edge of abyss” from which there was “no exit.” It was this sense of imminent doom,...
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