Summary
Helene Carrere d'Encausse: The Russian Accident
This book is not a chronicle of political murders through the ages: even hundreds of volumes would not be enough for that. Although the Russian nation, culture, and people make up the bulk of the material that illustrates my presentations, this book also does not aspire, not even remotely, to be some kind of history of Russia and the Soviet Union. That country, in its incomparable misfortune, appears as a puzzle to those who examine its destiny. During the effort to examine the deep causes of this centuries-old calamity, it seemed to us that one special link unites - always by accident - the conquest or preservation of power and the use of political murder, individual or mass, real or symbolic. Hence this experiment, as one way of clarifying that history, which many others knew how to tell, which some thought or believed they were creating, and which many paid for with their lives.
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