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Marshall T. Poe Book order
Marshall Tillbrook Poe is an American historian whose work centers on early modern Russia and the history of communication. He explores how communication media shape social practices and values, from the evolution of speech to the internet. Poe is the founder of the New Books Network, a platform for podcast interviews with non-fiction authors, and has a long tenure teaching at universities. His writing often draws on a deep historical knowledge and a keen interest in the evolving nature of human interaction.
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The Russian Moment in World History
- 136 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. This history of Russia takes us beyond the Soviet haze deep into the nation's - not at all inevitable, and in key respects remarkably successful - past.