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Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union by: Hosking, GeoffreyHardcover. Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, 484 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. In this illuminating book, Geoffrey Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians. One of the keys lies in messianism, the idea rooted in Russian Orthodoxy that the Russians were a "chosen people." The communists reshaped this notion into messianic socialism, in which the Soviet order would lead the world in a new direction. Neither vision, however, fit the "community spirit" of the Russian people, and the resulting clash defined the Soviet world. Light underlining in pencil present throughout. Record # 33909
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