THE ROAD FROM MOSCOW
Western understandings of the Second World War validated the template inherited from accounts, such as Tolstoy's War and Peace of Napoleon’s downfall in Russia - both Napoleon and Hitler had the hubris to attempt to conquer all of Europe, but they were defeated by the freedom loving peoples of the West and the snowstorms in the East. Dominic Lieven’s Russia Against Napoleon makes the two central arguments that the real reason Napoleon lost was that the Bear's was better, this superiority related to retrograde features of Russian society and politics.
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