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Russia : People and Empire, 1552-1917 by Geoffrey Alan Hosking (1997, Hardcover)

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The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation--a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. His book is about the Russia that never was, a three-hundred-year history of empire building at the expense of national identity.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-10067478118X

ISBN-139780674781184

eBay Product ID (ePID)27038832233

Product Key Features

Book TitleRussia : People and Empire, 1552-1917

Number of Pages570 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicRussia & the Former Soviet Union

Publication Year1997

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorGeoffrey Alan Hosking

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight34.6 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-005069

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsHosking's delineation of the trends, the sense of history's sweep, the accumulation of a wealth of material, the interweaving of the cultural with the religious with the social with the demotic, are generally done with a skill born of experience...So close has been his study of Russia ancient and modern that he is able to be as categorical on the 18th as on the 20th century...This is writing with a steady hand, guided by opinion formed through large experience.

Dewey Decimal947/.04

Table Of ContentMaps The Expansion of Muscovy in the 16th and 17th Centuries The Expansion of the Russian Empire in the 18th Century Russian Expansion under Catherine the Great Russia at its Greatest Extent Acknowledgements Introduction The Russian Empire: How and Why State-Building The First Crises of Empire The Secular State of Peter the Great Assimilating Peter's Heritage The Apogee of the Secular State Social Classes, Religion and Culture in Imperial Russia The Nobility The Army The Peasantry The Orthodox Church Towns and the Missing Bourgeoisie The Birth of the Intelligentsia Literature as 'Nation-Builder' Imperial Russia under Pressure The Reforms of Alexander II Russian Socialism Russification The Revolution of 1905-7 The Duma Monarchy Conclusions Afterthoughts on the Soviet Experience Chronology Notes Index

SynopsisExplores Russian history in light of the dissolution of the Soviet empire, focusing on the building of the empire as an obstruction to the flowering of a nation, which is more important than any other factor in explaining the country's backwardness.

LC Classification NumberDK49.H68 1997