Archy’s Reviews > The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe > Status Update

There is a chapter about year 1848 and revolutions in all of Central Europe which curiously avoids even the slightest mention of Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto which was published that same year. Author goes to great lengths to describe minute details of revolutions but there is not a single word about such important text of that time.

Interesting book, but it bothers me that author keeps using word Russia to describe Eastern European lands literally thousand years before Russia came into being. It is strange that Professor of Central European history at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies(according to Wikipedia) doesn’t know that the land he talks about was called Rus’ and not Russia.