TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Mark B.
TI  - The Russia anxiety: and how history can resolve it 
SN  - 9780241312766 (hbk.) :
AV  - DK66 
U1  - 327.47 SMI 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - UK
PB  - Allen Lane
KW  - Politics and Government
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Russia
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - History
KW  - Foreign public opinion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerful and weak, brilliant and flawed. Why are we so afraid of it? Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunning, malevolence and brutality. Yet the country has more often than not been a crucial ally, not least against Napoleon and in the two world wars. We admire its music and its writers. We lavish praise on the Russian soul. And still we think of Russia as a unique menace. What is it about this extraordinary country that consistently provokes such excessive responses? And why is this so dangerous? Ranging from the earliest times to the present, Mark B. Smith's remarkable new book is a history of this 'Russia Anxiety'
ER  -