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Well, from the article it seems Catherine did a more-or-less correct job of adjusting liberal principles to the reality of her country. Assuming that's right,
by adrianratnapala 9y ago
Well, from the article it seems Catherine did a more-or-less correct job of adjusting liberal principles to the reality of her country. Assuming that's right, the fact is that her time, her place and even her throne didn't put her in a position where she could do much.
In that sense Gorbachev was more fortunate, because he did a similar balancing act at a time when everything ended up in flux (partly because of Gorby's on work). And even that, by its nature, has to have unpredictable effects, including the partial about-face that Putin represents.
- thriftwy 9y ago> In that sense Gorbachev was more fortunate In what sense was Gorbachev any fortunate? He saw the desctruction of the country he was trying to fix, then chaos in all the fragments and then the swift undoing of everything that he ever tried.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoYou really have to wonder how Russia's history would have turned out after a while without Catherine's corrective attempts. You know, cultural heritage and all that.