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Great Russia (1916)
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1654084Great Russia1916Charles Sarolea

GREAT RUSSIA

Her Achievement and Promise

BY

CHARLES SAROLEA

D. Litt. (Liège) D. Ph. (Brussels) LL. D. (Montreal) D. Juris (Cleveland)

NEW YORK

ALFRED A KNOPF

1916

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF

PRINTED IN AMERICA

TO
BENJAMIN GUINNESS

most genial of hosts and
most loyal of friends

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

PAGE

PREFACE

ix

PART I
The Geographical Foundations of Russian Politics

I.

THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

3

II.

THE LESSON OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

14

III.

LESSONS OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

28

IV.

THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF RACES

37

V.

THE GEOGRAPHICAL ORIENTATION OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLITICS

43

PART II
What the World Owes to Russia

VI.

RUSSIAN VERSUS GERMAN CULTURE

51

VII.

RUSSIA STANDS FOR DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY

61

VIII.

RUSSIA AS THE LIBERATOR OF OPPRESSED NATIONALITIES

74

IX.

RUSSIA STANDS FOR PEACE AND PROGRESS

82

PART III
The Great Russian Triumvirate

X.

TURGENEV AND WESTERN INFLUENCE

91

XI.

TOLSTOY THE BYZANTINE

107

XII.

DOSTOEVSKY AND THE RELIGION OF HUMAN SUFFERING

118

XIII.

THOUGHTS ON THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

124

PART IV
Russian Problems

XIV.

THE RESURRECTION OF POLAND

139

XV.

THE PROBLEM OF THE RUSSIAN JEW

153

XVI.

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

179

XVII.

RUSSIAN POLITICAL EVILS AND THEIR REMEDIES

217

XVIII.

THE RUSSIAN WAR OF LIBERATION A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

224

XIX.

RUSSIA AND GERMANY

231

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