Chuzhie i svoi. Russkaia vlast' ot Ekateriny II do Stalina - Mukhin Iurii Ignat'evich

V.O. Klyuchevsky also noted that in Russian people paradoxically combine respect, even worship before the government - and hatred of it, reaching to complete rejection. Yuri Mukhin begins his new book with a gallery of Russian rulers, military and statesmen from the 18th to the 20th centuries: Catherine II, Potemkin and Suvorov, Nicholas I and Nicholas II, Stalin will appear before the reader. On their examples, the author shows what the authorities in Russia love or dislike for. Mukhin confirms his reasoning with a detailed analysis of the state's policy towards the majority of the population of Russia - peasantry - during the reign of Nicholas II, Lenin and Stalin.