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Daniel Beer
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Daniel Beer (born 1973) is an English historian.
Quotes
The Bolshevik regime's violent transformative project serves less as the verification of Russian liberalism's failure, than as the validation of its dangerous potential.
(2008)
/Q: Are there any particular characteristics of Russia’s society or its politics that you think Western media or politicians fail to grasp?/ A: I wouldn’t claim to have any special privileged perspective, but the thing that struck me about the tsarist regime that I think holds true for much of Russia today is actually the weakness of central government in administering the lives of its own population. Bureaucratic inefficiency, corruption and lack of resources frequently subvert the state’s own grand designs. So the appearance of authority and power is often just that, an appearance.
(2017)
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