A historian on the sources of imperialism in Russia. “It is not a nation, it is simply a device for conquest”

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Putin has restored panic specified as had not been since Stalinist times and people are indeed afraid. But the fact that they don't mass on the streets shows that they are not a coherent society capable of acting on a common cause. Russia is inhabited by a crowd - says Adam S. Zamoyski, a Polish-British historian.