Why has there never been a consistently functioning Russian democracy? No functioning system of public accountability? Why is Russia so incredibly corrupt? Why is it that Russia seems to have spent almost the entirety of its history as an authoritarian state? In this video, I will explain to you the political developments that over the course of centuries came to shape the authoritarian Russian state.

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Sources:

The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
Why Nations Fail by Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson
Lord and Peasant in Russia by Jerome Blum
A History of Russia by Nicholas Riasanovsky and Mark Steinberg
Feudal Society by Marc Bloch

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