“The point of departure of peoples determines their fate”: Peter Chaadaev and Alexis de Tocqueville
In 1836, Peter Chaadaev in his private letter to Alexander Turgenev mentioned that the French thinker Alexis de Tocqueville had stolen from him a “deep thought” that the point of departure of peoples determined their fate. Russian and foreign scholars interpreted these words differently, trying to a...
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Language: | English |
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Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
2020-08-01
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Series: | Слово.ру: балтийский акцент |
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Online Access: | https://journals.kantiana.ru/slovo/4678/25626/ |