Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: dates and names only

I bought this book after reading the first chapter and was deeply disappointed after that as the author gave no biographical information of even the biggest names in russian history but even worse was the lack of context behind any event. It felt like a Fodors guide listing names and dates and only those of political importance. There was almost nothing about the culture, music, literature, the land, the peoples of Russia. I got tired of looking up in my atlas where a city was as the author would continuously name places with no information about them. One moment you are in the East, and next paragraph in Poland. Save your money.