I am reading Jan Kucharewski "Origins of Modern Russia" (1948). It's a dense and fascinating book essentially about c19 Russian thinkers. You write ❝It is a life in which most individuals seem to have little or no use for politics at all, or even for the state, except as a means to very particular and limited ends.❞ What I learn from Kucharewski is that this attitude to the state as an external force, mostly irrelevant, sometimes threatening, was typical. There is nothing new about Putin.
I am reading Jan Kucharewski "Origins of Modern Russia" (1948). It's a dense and fascinating book essentially about c19 Russian thinkers. You write ❝It is a life in which most individuals seem to have little or no use for politics at all, or even for the state, except as a means to very particular and limited ends.❞ What I learn from Kucharewski is that this attitude to the state as an external force, mostly irrelevant, sometimes threatening, was typical. There is nothing new about Putin.