Facebook.com/alexander.etkind Alexander Etkind, who was born in St. Petersburg, is the author of a series of books that have become fundamental to the perception of Russian history. Famously, one of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s favorite phrases was, “It’s boring in the world, gentlemen!” And according to Vienna-based historian, culturologist, professor and author Alexander Etkind, Dostoyevsky stands as...
‘He was bored’: Historian Alexander Etkind on Putin’s mechanisms of self-destruction in Ukraine war
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