For unfortunate reasons, westerners and russians are studying different pre-mode

For unfortunate reasons, westerners and russians are studying different pre-modern histories, when the combination of english and russian is pretty thorough. In fact, I am not sure we can’t learn more from russian archeology, anthropology, and ethnology than we can from western. It’s almost impossible to understand anything east of germany from western history.

There has been a pretty concerted effort in russia to translate western texts, but the effort hasn’t been reciprocated.

Military histories are always more informative than political or philosophical. And economic histories explain why…