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Russka
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Across nearly two thousand years, the novel follows families living in and around a fictional Russian settlement as political centres, religions and social orders change. Their descendants experience early Slavic society, the rise of Kievan Rus, Mongol domination, Muscovite expansion, imperial reform, serfdom, the Napoleonic invasion and the revolutions of the twentieth century. Repeated conflicts over land, authority and identity connect village life to the formation and collapse of empires.
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