Lecture presented by Hudson Senior Fellow, Amy A. Kass, on March 13, 2010, for Winter Weekend on Middlemarch, sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council and National Endowment for the Humanities, at Bowdoin College.

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President Vladimir Putin holds a videocall with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow on January 21, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov/AFP via Getty Images)