My students taught me that everything was personal - history, politics, foreign relations - but this approach creates boundaries as well as connections
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Geoffrey HoskingGeoffrey Hosking is professor of Russian history at the University of London. Among his books are Russia: People and Empire (Penguin, 2002), Russia and the Russians (Harvard University Press, 2001) and Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 2006). Recent articlesRussians in the Soviet Union: rulers and victims "When Russians try to understand what happened to them in the Soviet Union, they come up against an ineluctable paradox. The Soviet Union was both Russian and anti-Russian." The historian Geoffrey Hosking examines Russians' complex of strong, ambivalent and unresolved feelings about their national past. (This article was first published on 26 June 2006) |
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