Abused Russia: Restored Classics to Go Edition

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Abused Russia is a 1915 travel-and-political study that uses firsthand journeys through European Russia and Central Asia to challenge the myths Americans and Europeans tell about the Russian Empire. Dr. C. C. Young writes with the confidence of a man moving among diplomats, nobles, and officials, and he turns those encounters into an argument for Russia's complexity, dignity, and misunderstood strength. His opening chapters confront foreign prejudice head-on, from American stereotypes about Russia to Russian assumptions about the United States, then widen into a defense of Russia against sensational journalism, rumor, and political distortion. From village life and the vast Russian plain to Novgorod's early republic, the Mongol invasions, and the rise of strong rulers such as Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and Alexander II, the book blends travel observation with sweeping historical interpretation. It also explores religion, Orthodox ritual, the Cossacks, passports, Jews, and the empire's Asian territories, including Samarkand and the Registan. Rich in anecdote and sharply opinionated, it presents Russia as a vast, varied civilization shaped by conquest, faith, empire, and endurance.