Putin sees his own crusade to save Russia from disintegration and separatism as similar to Alexander’s. But how forward-looking is it to model a twenty-first-century country on the absolutist example of the past?
普京将他自己的改革视作类似于亚历山大那挽救俄罗斯于土崩瓦解和分裂主义之前的改革。让一个二十一世纪的国家模仿过去的专制主义先例，这样的做法究竟目光有多长远呢？