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Mark D. Steinberg

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Mark D. Steinberg is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of books on Russian labor relations, popular culture, working-class poetry, the 1917 revolution, religion, and emotions. His most recent books are Petersburg Fin-de-Siecle (Yale University Press, 2011) and the eighth edition of A History of Russia, with the late Nicholas Riasanovsky, published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He is currently writing a history of the Russian Revolution for Oxford Histories.

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Picturing Putin's Russia

(0) Comments | Posted May 29, 2012 | 3:51 PM

Winston Churchill famously called Russia "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma" -- a phrase that makes me cringe when it shows up in contemporary journalism or student papers. Part of the problem is that we forget Churchill's point: There is a key "Russian national interest." We are...

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