"At the Cabinet meeting this morning Zbig [Brzezinski] made an interesting comment that under Lenin the Soviet Union w…"

"For more than five hundred years the cardinal problem in defining Europe has centred on the inclusion or exclusion of…"

"Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of…"

"Russian history is the conflation of the Russian state with a personal ruler. Instead of getting the strong state tha…"

"Throughout its history, Russia has been a special case. It arrived late on the European scene—well after France and G…"

"Few countries in history have started more wars or caused more turmoil than Russia in its eternal quest for security …"

"In Russia, where the transition from one form of government to another was much more abrupt, post-Soviet governments …"

"Studying Russian history from the West European perspective, one also becomes conscious of the effect that the absenc…"

"​Солдатушки​, бравы ребятушки, А кто вашъ родимый? – Нашъ родимый – Царь непобѣдимый, Вотъ кто нашъ родимый. Солдатуш…"

"​Little soldiers, brave little guys, And who is your esteemed? – Our esteemed, the invincible Tsar That's who our est…"