Russia alone, ever since she formed her aggressive empire, commanded more attention, critical at times but reverential most of the time. The peoples living east of Germany and Italy have been edited out of European history as alien, inferior, and not interesting enough to merit attention in the enlightened literary circles of the 'real,' i.e., Western Europe. Andrzej NowakĬontemporary Western syntheses of European history have generally been flawed by deep-seated assumptions about the eastern half of the continent. Sarmatian Review XVIII.1: Davies Europe A History by Norman Davies.
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