1860s: A schism has developed in Russia between the political liberals and the conservatives, threatening to tear the country apart. The liberals look to the Western industrializing nations and want change, while the conservatives look to Russia’s peasant history and want to return to its roots, a time of idealized simplicity. Fearful of revolution, the tsarist government cracks down any hint of rebellion through stringent censorship and arrests.
2007: Russia struggles between creating a democracy and a free market economy and a strengthening...
