Stalin, Vol. I

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• WORLD HISTORY IS DRIVEN BY GEOPOLITICS. Among the great powers, the British empire, more than any other state, shaped the world in modern times. Between 1688 and 1815, the French fought the British for global supremacy. Despite France’s greater land mass and population, Britain emerged the winner, mostly thanks to a superior, lean, fiscal-military state.4 By the final defeat of Napoleon, which was achieved in a coalition, the British were the world’s dominant power. Their ascendancy, moreover, coincided with China’s decline under the Qing dynasty, rendering British power—political, military, industrial, cultural, and fiscal—genuinely global. The felicitous phrase “the sun never sets” that was used to describe the extent of the empire’s holdings originated in connection with the earlier emp... (查看原文)

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• 與俄羅斯人民同盟不一樣，許多右翼團體並沒有明顯的暴力傾向和太過露骨的煽動性言論，也沒有把自發維持治安的「兄弟會」武裝起來，去和左翼分子以及猶太人戰鬥，去刺殺公眾人物。但尼古拉二世和整個政權的其他人，對於支持者的大型公共集會心懷疑慮。沙皇和包括斯托雷平在內的大部分政府官員，對於政治動員中的公眾「缺乏秩序」的現象感到不滿，想讓政治從街頭回到權力的走廊。儘管支持現政權的保守派團體想要的不是右翼革命，而主要是復辟杜馬出現前的古老的專制制度，但拒斥街頭政治的態度沒有變。同樣重要的是，許多右翼組織本身即便得到允許甚至鼓勵，也不會願意代表政權去動員社會中的愛國選民：不管怎樣，哪種專制制度需要幫助呢？從某種意義上說，正是專制制度的存在本身，束縛了俄國不論是溫和的還是激進的右翼組織的手腳。 (查看原文)

  宫保鸡丁 1赞 2022-11-21 02:36:50

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