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Dec 2012
29m 35s

Religious dogma versus scientific progre...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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2/8. Alexander Iosad (Cantemir Institute, Oxford) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012. 
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