Het Rusland van Michaïl Sjisjkin
Will Russia continue its vicious circle of upheaval and autocracy, or will its people find a way out of history? This is one of the questions that lies at the heart of Mikhail Shishkin latest book My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin is one of contemporary Russian literature's most celebrated writers. Together with him we will analyze the story behind Putin's autocratic regime during this program.
Het Rusland van Michaïl Sjisjkin
About My Russia: War of Peace
In My Russia: War or Peace? Michaïl Sjisjkin traces the roots of Russia’s problems, from the ‘Kievan Rus’ via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation. He explores the uneasy relationship between state and citizens, explains Russian attitudes to people’s rights and democracy, and proposes that there are really two Russian peoples: the disillusioned and disaffected, who suffer from ��slave mentality’, and those who embrace ‘European’ values and try to stand up to oppression.
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