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The author presents his answer to the title question, “What is History?”
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Requiem for a Nun, 1951.
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Epigraph for “Tolstoy” by Stefan Zweig, David McKay Co., Philadelphia, 1939.
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Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Machiavelli.” (Originally published as a review of a translation of the complete works of Machiavelli by J. V. Peries.)
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“American Shelter of Lion Feuchtwanger,” program by Marina Efimova, New York, aired on September 17, 2010, radio station “Freedom,” Moscow, in my translation from the Russian.
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Friedrich Nietzsche, <First book: What is truth?>, Digital Critical Edition of Nietzsche’s Works and Letters (eKGWB), Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari (eds), http://www.nietzschesource.org/#eKGWB/NF-1886,7[60]
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Epigraph for Feuchtwanger’s “Proud Destiny” a.k.a. “Arms for America,” The Viking Press, New York, 1947.
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“American Shelter of Lion Feuchtwanger,” a program by Marina Efimova, New York, September 17, 2010, radio station “Freedom,” in my translation from Russian.
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Soifer, A. (2015). Greetings to the Reader: What Is History?. In: The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_1
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