Fragments of a blog
Fragments of a blog
Looking away from the feisty conservatives to the opposite side of the political campground, consider Corey Robin’s tweet: Physical attractiveness is a charged topic. The ancients thought it was part of the social order, dividing elite from commoner. In the…
Corey Robin writes on his blog: …close watchers of Russia and the US have pointed out all the multiple ways in which the US is currently pursuing a very anti-Russia foreign policy, more aggressive than anything pursued by Obama (especially…
Erik McDonald provides more detail on the share of serfs in the Russian population before the great peasant reform of 1861. From a slightly different angle, one can claim with some justification that in 1678, two years after the death of…