Russian characteristics. /
Reprinted, with revisions, from the "Fortnightly review." By E.B. Lanin [pseud.].
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Chapman and Hall, Ld.,
1892.
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| Notes: | Appeared in the Fortnightly review, from September, 1889, to October, 1892. Physical description: x, 604 p ; 23 cm. more |
Table of Contents:
The demoralization of the nation.
Truthfulness and the mythopœic faculty.
The life-philosophy of the Russian.
Fatalism, improvidence and hospitality.
Procrastination. Time not money.
Shiftlessness of the people. Grandmotherly legislation.
Honesty tempered by communism.
The ethics of commerce. Morality independent of honesty.
Prisons.
Armenia and the Armenian people.
Sexual morality.
Finance: the racking of the peasantry.
Finland.
The Jews in Russia.
Appendix: The famine.
The demoralization of the nation.
Truthfulness and the mythopœic faculty.
The life-philosophy of the Russian.
Fatalism, improvidence and hospitality.
Procrastination. Time not money.
Shiftlessness of the people. Grandmotherly legislation.
Honesty tempered by communism.
The ethics of commerce. Morality independent of honesty.
Prisons.
Armenia and the Armenian people.
Sexual morality.
Finance: the racking of the peasantry.
Finland.
The Jews in Russia.
Appendix: The famine.