A Short History Of Russia

Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Title:A Short History Of RussiaISBN13:9781490568140ISBN10:149056814XAuthor:Parmele, Mary Platt (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - A Short History Of Russia By Mary Platt Parmele The Topography Of A Country Is To Some Extent A Prophecy Of Its Future Had There Been No Mississippi Coursing For Three Thousand Miles Through The North American Continent, No Ohio And Missouri Bisecting It From East To West, No Great Inland Seas Indenting And Watering It, No Fertile Prairies Stretching Across Its Vast Areas, How Different Would Have Been The History Of Our Own Land Russia Is The Strange Product Of Strange Physical Conditions Nature Was Not In Impetuous Mood When She Created This Greater Half Of Europe, Nor Was She Generous, Except In The Matter Of Space She Was Slow, Sluggish, But Inexorable No Volcanic Energies Threw Up Rocky Ridges And Ramparts In Titanic Rage, And Then Repentantly Clothed Them With Lovely Verdure As In Spain, Italy, And Elsewhere No Hungry Sea Rushed In And Tore Her Coast Into Fragments It Would Seem To Have Been Just A Cold-Blooded Experiment In Subjecting A Vast Region To The Most Rigorous And Least Generous Conditions Possible, Leaving It Unshielded Alike From Polar Winds In Winter Or Scorching Heat In Summer, Divesting It Of Beauty And Of Charm, And Then Casting This Arid, Frigid, Torpid Land To A Branch Of The Human Family As Unique As Its Own Habitation; Separating It By Natural And Almost Impassable Barriers From Civilizing Influences, And In Strange Isolation Leaving It To Work Out Its Own Problem Of Development Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2013-06-29Weight:0.47 lbsDimensions:0.32'' H x 9.02'' L x 5.98'' WNumber of Pages:138Language:English