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The 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union caused a major identity crisis for the Russian people. During the Soviet era, Moscow was considered a political and cultural center, author Clowes (Slavic lang
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No other thinker so engaged the Russian cultural imagination of the early twentieth century as did Friedrich Nietzche. The Revolution of Moral Consciousness shows how Nietzschean thought influenced th
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