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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should start with the classics. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, etc. I don't understand does what stem from Peter the Great? What do you mean why do they think they way they do? How do you think Russians think? From serfdom to 1812? Russians were still serfs in 1812. Serfdom was abolished in 1861. Are you suggesting that a. Russians all think alike, and b. that some U.S. author book can shed the light on these exactly same thinking millions of people? You should really ask Jeff to delete your insulting and thoughtless post.[/quote]

You may think like a faux intellectual, but the Russian mindset is very much tied to totalitarianism.  The czars of old and the despots from post revolution onward including the present day.

Pushkin, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky born generations apart were all part of the nobility at a time when the vast majority of Russians were illiterate and starving.  [/quote]
Indeed, in most countries, including the U.S. and England those living in poverty were not writing literary masterpieces! At that time. How many 19th century poorest of the poor wrote and published novels in the U.S?[/quote]

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