Russia
Subtitle: a 1,000-year chronicle of the wild east
By: Martin Sixsmith
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Kent]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
ISBN-13: 9781849900720
Subjects: History
Description: Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist', with an ingrained eagerness to sacrifice the individual for the collectivist cause.
Notes: "As heard on Radio 4."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [575]-588) and index.