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| | Amazon.com: Books: A History of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | appanage period, zemskie sobory, pomestie system, zemskii sobor, boyar duma, zemstvo system, appanage princes, service gentry, zemstvo institutions, boyar families, grand prince, serf labor |
 | | He begins with the geopolitical landscape as it existed prior to the Russians then examines in detail the flowering of Kiev, the appanage system, and the Muscovite, imperialist, revolutionary, and Soviet eras. |
 | | For example, his illustration of the early appanage system and the continuation of class disparities well into the 20th century shed ample light on the fertile ground into which Vladimir Lenin was able to sow the communist theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195121791?v=glance (2102 words) |
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