Moscow kingdom. "Civilization of special purpose." Pipes R.

Richard Pipes (1923 - 2018) - a famous historian who wrote several dozen books about Russia. The main theme of his research was the features of Russian history, determined by the geography and climate of our country, and in connection with this the differences between Russian civilization and the Western.

describes the formation and development of the Moscow kingdom, which for more than two hundred years is described It grew an average of 35,000 square kilometers per year. How did this affect - along with climatic and geographical conditions - on the political, economic and social ways of Russian life, why did Russian civilization become a “special purpose civilization”? R. Pipes shows all this in his thorough book, based on a larger number of different sources.