Russia has always played a major roll in global politics, economics and thought. However, in the past two centuries, Russia has had probably the greatest influence on the international world in modern times, surpassed only by the United States. The Russia that we've known this century though, has its roots in last centuries Russian. At the end of the nineteenth century, Russia experienced great changes internally, politically, socially and spiritually. The half century leading up …showed first 75 words of 1146 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1146 total…deep spiritual conviction. Russia would enter the twentieth century as a powerful and complex nation, and soon would soon emerge as the world's first socialist-communist entity. Owing thanks to the political and literary changes and advances of the late nineteenth century. Bibliography A Cultural History of Russia by Joel Carmichael Weybright and Talley; 1968 A Panorama of Russian Literature by Janko Larvin Barnes and Noble; 1973 A Concise History of Russian Literature by Thais Lindstrom NYU Press; 1966