The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

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Perceived stress was significantly associated with depression; Insomnia mediated the association between perceived stress Of course, there’s going to be intense grief and pain for what refugees are suffering right now. But you might also feel this increased sense of connection and community and humanity, especially when seeing some of the stories and images of people who are helping,” Bullis noted. It is entirely understandable that Russia’s neighbours fear a country which has so often invaded and occupied them. It is harder to explain the near hysteria of a distant country such as Britain, which has only twice encountered Russia on the battlefield – and then as the invader, not the invaded. It would be great if you could just say, I don’t want to engage with this Ukraine situation, because it caused my anxiety to spike,” he said. “But because of the way the world works now, you’re cutting yourself off. It’s a lose-lose scenario.”

The target population of this study were Czech university students who were recruited to participate in this study through a nonrandom sampling strategy (snow-balling technique). Inclusion criteria were (i) being a full-time/part-time student enrolled in any study program at any Czech university/higher education institute, and (ii) being able to communicate fluently either in Czech or English. Exclusion criteria were (i) Erasmus or exchange students, and (ii) the students enrolled in preparatory courses. The participants were not offered any incentives to take part, and their willingness was not coerced by any form of threats. Time and again, we judge Russia by unique standards. We have usually assumed that it possesses higher levels of cunning, malevolence and brutality. Yet the country has more often than not been a crucial ally, not least against Napoleon and in the two world wars. We admire its music and its writers. We lavish praise on the Russian soul. And still we think of Russia as a unique menace. What is it about this extraordinary country that consistently provokes such excessive responses? And why is this so dangerous? Some amount of anxiety is helpful — it prepares us to respond to a future threat, reminds us to take appropriate precautions and motivates us to act.PL: introduction. GM: methodology. GT: data and conclusion. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version. Conflict of interest

The life of the Soviet worker’, in Simon Dixon (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History (Oxford University Press, 2016; currently available online)The poll was conducted among 1,631 Russians aged 18 or over. It was carried out in 50 urban and rural areas across Russia from September 22 to 28, with personal interviews in the respondents’ homes. Mark B. Smith, university lecturer in 20th-century European history at the University of Cambridge, studied history at Oxford and then at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. His teachers there, he recalls, were “major historians