Summary
Robert Service: History of modern Russia - from tsarism to the 21st century
Russia is the largest Slavic country, and the world's largest country by area. At times, Russia has significantly influenced relations throughout the world. In some periods, she was only felt in the immediate vicinity, but she always had the possibility of turning into a superpower. Croatian history in the last decade of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy cannot be understood unless one understands the defeat of Russia in the war with Japan in 1905. Frano Supil's reactions to the Treaty of London in 1915 and Italy's attempt to reach the eastern coast of the Adriatic cannot be understood without understanding the role of the Russian Empire in the Great War. The history of monarchist Yugoslavia cannot be clear if it is not understood that that country was one of the last to recognize the USSR. During the Second World War, units of the Red Army entered the territory of Yugoslavia, and Stalin's pictures became everyday. During the Cold War, when the Soviet Union was one of the two superpowers, a large part of our history was created in reference, often negatively, to what
was happening in the Third Rome, Moscow, which was then the capital of the Bolshevik empire. The dispute between Tito and Stalin in 1948, and Khrushchev's Canossa in 1955, are among the most important events in the entire history of the Cold War. Fear of Russia stems from ignorance, and ignorance or underestimation of Russians can be fatal.
Robert Service's book is the first overview of the history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation in the Croatian language. This is an important, balanced and interesting study that explains Putin, but also the world history of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Prof. Ph.D. Company Jakovina
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