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A People Born to Slavery

A People Born to Slavery

Poe, Marshall T.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in the Humanities

Literary CriticismAnthropologyRussian History

ISBN10: 0801437989
ISBN13: 9780801437984
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Jan 3 2001
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Many Americans and Europeans have for centuries viewed Russia as a despotic country in which people are inclined to accept suffering and oppression. What are the origins of this stereotype of Russia as a society fundamentally apart from nations in the West, and how accurate is it?

In the first book devoted to answering these questions, Marshall T. Poe traces the roots of today's perception of Russia and its people to the eyewitness descriptions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travelers. His fascinating account--the most complete review of early modern European writings about Russia ever undertaken--explores how the image of Russian tyranny took hold in the popular imagination and eventually became the basis for the notion of Oriental Despotism first set forth by Montesquieu.

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