Алиса в стране фантазий (Russian Edition)

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These examples may contain rude words based on your search. These examples may contain colloquial words based on your search. They bring a sense of whimsy and nostalgia. Good golly, Penny, your whimsy is boundless. Well, that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy. What's life without whimsy? Meanwhile, you can't help but sympathize with would-be revolutionaries facing an incredibly corrupt, dehumanizing, horrific systems of repression.

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But their conclusion that any amount of death and horror is justified in the name of revolution So everyone does horrible things. And it ends terribly for everyone. Thus pushing off the revolution for two more generations, so everyone can do even more horrible things. Aug 16, Ted rated it it was ok.

This book should have borne a different title as there is too much extraneous material for it to be a biography of Alexander II. The author spends pages and pages discussing Dostoesvsky, Turgenev, and the other novelists of the day. Now, some of that interested me, but most of it bored me. Moreover, these subjects were not what I was looking for in a book called "Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar. Certainly, nothing in the book would lead me to believe that Alexander deserves the appellation "Great. Nov 11, Tom Andersson rated it really liked it.

I found reading this book to be a strange experience. It's packed full of information It's it a cautionary tale? An apologist guide to Russia? A lament, or a statement of resigned indifference? And if you're going to make comparisons to Gorbachev in the late 20th century, surely you should establish a thesis for such an approach from the outset? A useful research tool, but one very odd read. Sep 26, Linda rated it really liked it. I couldn't get this to change the edition, but I read the Free Press hardback edition, if it really matters I read his The Last Tsar many years ago and found it informative, interesting, an easy read, and, in some ways, quite funny in a dark humor way.

Radzinsky has no qualms against giving his opinion about the people and times he is writing about. Unlike most historians, he doesn't try to maintain an ob I couldn't get this to change the edition, but I read the Free Press hardback edition, if it really matters Unlike most historians, he doesn't try to maintain an objective view if a subjective one will do.

For example, speaking of the expectation of greater openness to Europe with the advent of Tsar Alexander II, he writes Glastnost and thaw would be key concepts, and they would be inherited by all later Russian perestroikas - as would the rake, on which Russia always steps during reforms. Or this, concerning the a plot to kill Alexander: And so they labored and sincerely made merry, listening to Sonechka's silvery laughter, before attempting to blow up a trainload of people.

He also muses on the inexorable history of Russia: I often wonder, "What if? What if they had just once followed the parable of the prodigal son, which Dostoevsky had entreated his children to remember. Alexander II was the son of Nicholas I, who was a "traditional" Russian tsar - unforgiving, totally in control, regal, with a belief that the tsar was above anything, anyone and everything.

Alexander was tutored by a famous Russian poet who taught him that "Revolution is a fatal effort to leap from Monday right into Wednesday. He both succeeded spectacularly and failed just as strongly. He freed the serfs but did not allow them to actually own or sell the land they lived on. He ended censorship, but had to take a step backwards when it blew up into tremendous proportions. At the end of his life, the actual day he was killed, he had signed the order to write a constitution and limit the autocracy of Russian rule.

However, he didn't go far enough fast enough for the liberals, who began fomenting revolution to speed things up, and went TOO fast for the conservatives who wanted the old reign of Nicholas back where everybody knew his place and no one got out of hand or even thought about it. On the liberal side, this bred anarchists, the forerunners of the revolutionaries of On the conservative side, it provoked his son and heir into reverting back to the style of his grandfather, Nicholas. Radzinsky also spends much time dealing with the milieu of the times, especially the life and career of Dostoevsky, who, at the end of his life, lived right next door the adjoining apartment to the Guardian Angel, one of the highest terrorists in Russia.

Radzinsky suggests that possibly Dostoevsky knew and used his neighbor as a "study" for the novel he never wrote - a sequel to The Brothers Karamasov. He also suggests that the cause of the fatal burst aneurysm might have been the raid on the apartment causing Dostoevsky to attempt to hide papers and notes he had make for the novel which concerned terrorists. I also have a better idea of Russian history from the early 18th century on - did you know that the second wife of Peter the Great, and the mother of the line of tsars leading straight down to Nicholas II was actually the daughter of a kitchen cook?

She also ruled in her own right as Catherine I! The book is well worth the read.

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You'll understand so much more about the Russian character that actually sheds light on the current situation in Ukraine. The Russian character is complex and may never settle into history easily, just as Alexander could never completely settle into his role as a liberal. Jun 07, Louise rated it it was amazing. This is more of a sweep of Russian history 's to than a biography. It's the compelling story of how the revolution brewed for so many years. A short search of Amazon will show a lot of treatments of the reigns of Catherine the Great and Nicholas II with not much in the middle.

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This book fills that gap. Once you read about this period, you see that understanding it is critical to understanding the aftermath. It's a little hard to get into. Some of it is the unfamiliar Russian names and ma This is more of a sweep of Russian history 's to than a biography. Some of it is the unfamiliar Russian names and material. Once a neophyte accepts not understanding all the points, i. Gorchakov has a "brilliant career", and several paragraphs later his "inflexible backbone ended his career" without explanation , and that it is not a biography, the reader will be riveted to this amazing story.

Radzinsky puts us right inside 19th century Russia. We come to understand the cultures of the palace, the nobles, the countryside, the youth. Alexander sees, rightly so, that for the monarchy to last it has to give up power. We see this in the world today with Britain and Japan having the most lasting dynasties Alexander's major accomplishment, freeing the serfs for which the retrogrades hated him , was so clumsily accomplished that it was hard for the sympathetic liberals to defend the result.

He did not seize the initiative in framing his military success.

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In elevating his mistress and suggesting that his new family provide his heir, he turned off his family and the court. He knows Russia needs a constitution, but with so many enemies, and the limited autocracy that he himself created, how can he ever make the change? Count Loris-Melikov grasps what Alexander cannot. He forms a partnership with the press, he gets a new education commissioner, he gets an effective policing agency Radzinsky's research suggests that the terrorists were an unwitting tool of the retrogrades that ran the "spy" services and executes a few terrorists.

It seems that the Count arrived too late, attitudes may have been too entrenched, and the Tzar's myopia about his 2nd marriage too complete. Radzinsky reminds us of how prophetic Dostoevsky was Radzinsky hints at how Dostoevsky might know this: