Civilization on TrialThirteen essays and lectures written over a period of years, dealing with many problems. |
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... eastern extremity of Siberia , where such primitive human communities had not yet been pounced upon and either exterminated or assimilated by the aggres- sive pioneers of other human societies that , unlike these sluggards , had now ...
... eastern extremity of Siberia , where such primitive human communities had not yet been pounced upon and either exterminated or assimilated by the aggres- sive pioneers of other human societies that , unlike these sluggards , had now ...
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... eastern half of Asia's European peninsula . Russia overlooks the back doors of all the other civilizations ; from White Russia and North - Eastern Siberia she overlooks the Polish and Alaskan back doors of our own Western world ; from ...
... eastern half of Asia's European peninsula . Russia overlooks the back doors of all the other civilizations ; from White Russia and North - Eastern Siberia she overlooks the Polish and Alaskan back doors of our own Western world ; from ...
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... Eastern Orthodox Christendom . The Russians embraced Eastern Orthodox Christianity at the end of the tenth century , and it is significant that this was a deliberate choice on their part . Alternatively they might have followed the ...
... Eastern Orthodox Christendom . The Russians embraced Eastern Orthodox Christianity at the end of the tenth century , and it is significant that this was a deliberate choice on their part . Alternatively they might have followed the ...
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My View of History | 3 |
The Present Point in History | 16 |
Does History Repeat Itself? | 29 |
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