We are not Barbarians: Literature and the Russian Émigré Press in England, 1890–1905
If any single factor militated against late Victorian support for a Russian revolution, it was the entrenched belief that Russians were barbarians, incapable of governing themselves, a race of ‘besotted savages utterly unfit for civilisation'. Yet during the last years of the nineteenth century...
Main Author: | Carol Peaker |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2006-10-01
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Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/451 |
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