Volume 46, Number 9 · May 20, 1999
The Russian Sphinx
By Aileen Kelly
Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
by Martin Malia
Harvard University Press, 514 pp., $35.00
'We are neither of the West nor of the East,' the Russian philosopher Piotr Chaadaev wrote of his country in the early nineteenth century. 'We belong to that number of nations which does not seem to make up an integral part of the human race, but which exists only to teach the world some great lesson.'
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