[Mb-civic] Russia's Downhill Slide to Dictatorship

[richard haase]

i too adore russian literature; have read all dostoyevsky; love tolstoy
turgenev; chekhov;
ressurrection by tolstoy is magnificent
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> Russia's Downhill Slide to Dictatorship
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> Putin's regime parallels Weimar Germany.
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> By Niall Ferguson
> Niall Ferguson, a professor of history at Harvard University and a senior
research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, is the author of "Colossus: The
Rise and Fall of the American Empire" (Penguin, 2004
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> January 9 2005
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> In an amateurish way, I am a Russophile. It was reading "War and Peace" as
a schoolboy that convinced me I should study history at university. My
favorite film of all time is still the Soviet-era adaptation of Tolstoy's
masterpiece. Throughout my 20s, I was a Dostoevsky devotee. Even today I can
think of few pleasures to match reading the short stories of Chekhov. And
then there is the music. For me, Shostakovich's chilling, haunting Piano
Quintet will always be the signature tune of the 20th century.
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> The complete article can be viewed at:
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ferguson9jan09,1,1792856.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
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