Can anyone recommend non-fiction about Russia post-Crimean war but pre-1917?
Russophilia Thread
Kevin Wilson
Eli Powell
Honestly speaking, Russia wasn't even that bad. There exist pretty significant minority of modern minded exceptional people, who are interesting, competent and intelligent.
Jordan Butler
Can someone explain why Russian people are so cynical to people in power but believe in whatever main guy says and loyal to him?
Jeremiah Jackson
Read Massie's biography of Catherine the Great recently, it was really good. That book is the extent of everything I know about Russian history, and it made me interested in learning more. I already have his Peter the Great book, I'll be reading that eventually, I'm a little burned out on history atm.
>mfw Peter III
Landon Peterson
I am a murrican and I just visited Russia and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked their food. I also wish they did a better in some of their museums with historical accuracy. In the Red Army museum in Moscow any display that had Nazi relics displayed were in this overly bright, red light which just fucked up the displays.
Hudson Parker
They are used to the idea that fucking with however in charge is a bad idea.
Far less people than you'd think buy the propaganda.
Alexander Richardson
If Trump gets in charge, we maybe friends again ever since the early 1900s. Too bad the Bolsheviks ruined everything tho.
Pic related, fucking smug Karl Marx. I wish he was killed before he made gommunism a thing.
Adrian Turner
I feel like communism as a concept would have been created eventually. Things would have gone differently for sure though.
Jose Parker
Without Lenin it wouldn't be that retarded as it was specifically ad hoc to Russia idea to force commie party into agrarian state or something like this. As a basic idea it isn't that bad, just retarded counter progressive implementations ruins it.
Nicholas Cox
Communism was supposed to be created in an already flourishing, modernized economy. So Imperial Russia that was just getting on the industrialization was not the time or the place to do it. It may be the solution to many problems in the future when technology advances further.