Zametki Po Russkoy Istorii: Razvitie Rossiyskogo Obshchestva Russian edition

Rossiyskaya gosudarstvennost' i kul'tura formirovalas' v trudneyshikh usloviyakh. Po podschetam russkogo istorika V. O. Klyuchevskogo, Rossiya za 234 goda (1228?1462 gg.) vynesla 160 vneshnikh voyn. V XVI veke Rossiya voyuet protiv Rechi Pospolitoy, Livonskogo ordena i Shvetsii 43 goda, ni na god ne preryvaya mezhdu tem bor'by protiv tataro-mongolov. V XVII veke Rossiya voevala 48 let, v XVIII veke ? 56 let. V tselom dlya Rossii sostoyanie mira bylo skoree isklyucheniem, a voyna ? zhestokim pravilom. Postavlennaya sud'boy na granitse dvukh kontinentov, Rus' prikryla soboy, kak shchitom, Evropu ot vtorzheniya dikikh tataro-mongol'skikh ord i v blagodarnost' ot nee poluchila udary v spinu. Oboronyayas' ili nastupaya, Rossiya v tselom vela v tot period spravedlivye i neizbezhnye voyny: inogo vybora u nee i ne bylo. Esli strana khotela zhit' i razvivat'sya, to dolzhna byla, otbrosiv nozhny za nenadobnost'yu, v techenie pyati stoletiy klinkom dokazyvat' sosedyam svoe pravo na zhizn' i razvitie.