Soon to be a graph. Somehow.

*EDIT* This is pretty much the best thing ever. I mean it. Hamlet with baby seals and emoticons.


There is no reason ever for you to read the below, but I sometimes marvel at the complexity of history. How a seemingly comprehensible period can be so tangled and opaque, how even something you would think could not be subject to personal opinion or ideological concern, the simple, lineal track of what happened when, divorced from such questions of motive, is entirely constructed by interpretation. "For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Also, Russia is a fucked up country. Word.

( Sixteen Ways of Looking at Russian Historiography )

Soon to be a graph. Somehow.

*EDIT* This is pretty much the best thing ever. I mean it. Hamlet with baby seals and emoticons.


There is no reason ever for you to read the below, but I sometimes marvel at the complexity of history. How a seemingly comprehensible period can be so tangled and opaque, how even something you would think could not be subject to personal opinion or ideological concern, the simple, lineal track of what happened when, divorced from such questions of motive, is entirely constructed by interpretation. "For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Also, Russia is a fucked up country. Word.

( Sixteen Ways of Looking at Russian Historiography )