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Peter the Great: good or evil for Russia

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Peter the Great: good or evil for Russia
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The reformist legacy of Peter the Great, as well as his personality, still generates fierce debates in Russian society. In the nineteenth century, disagreements in the assessment of Peter's activities were in many ways the impetus for the emergence of two main areas of ideological struggle in the Russian intellectual elite - Westerners and Slavophiles. Evgeny Anisimov dared to take a bold step: to present two points of view on the historical role of the tsar-reformer on equal footing. The book is written in the form of a dialog, or rather - a fierce debate between two opponents: the supporter of pan-European development and the supporter of the "special way". In the author's opinion, both positions have the right to exist, both are true in their own way and both reflect such a complex, ambiguous phenomenon as Peter's epoch in Russian history. Evgeny Anisimov is a doctor of historical sciences, professor and scientific head of the Department of History at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg branch), professor at the European University in St. Petersburg, chief researcher at the...
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