In this sweeping history, Steven Marks
tells the fascinating story of how
Russian figures, ideas, and movements
changed our world in dramatic but
often sunattributed ways. On Europe's
periphery, Russia was an early modernizing
nation whose troubles stimulated
intellectuals to develop radical and
utopian alternatives to Western models
of modernity. These provocative ideas
gave rise to cultural and political
innovations that were exported and
adopted worldwide.