TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sixsmith,Martin
TI  - Russia: a 1,000-year chronicle of the wild east 
SN  - 9781590207239
AV  - DK40 .S36 2012
U1  - 947 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Overlook
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - 1991-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [575]-588) and index
N2  - Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist', with an ingrained eagerness to sacrifice the individual for the collectivist cause
ER  -