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Jiang begins answering why Russians are different by saying the problem is the West, whose thinking derives from British thinking and tends to be narrower than Russian thinking.
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Jiang begins answering why Russians are different by saying the problem is the West, whose thinking derives from British thinking and tends to be narrower than Russian thinking.
Jiang says British literature, represented by Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy, is great but narrow in focus, unlike Russian literature's breadth.
"The ability to be multiple individuals at once. And that's how Stalin was able to win World War II, and this is why Putin..."
"And to understand the difference, what you do is you read British literature and compare it with Russian literature, okay? And then British literature,..."
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