Enduring Russia

Gold Domes, Black Earth

Democracy flourished in medieval Novgorod. Can the people become not subjects but citizens, and regain power over the state?

22 December 2000

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Russia—BBC World Service Archive
From the Russian Empire and the revolution to perestroika and Putin.

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