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Russia : the once and future empire from pre-history to Putin / Philip Longworth

Author
Longworth, Philip, 1933-
Uniform Title
Russia's empires
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Description
vii, 398 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Longworth, Philip, 1933-

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Contents
The Russians : who are they? -- The first Russian state -- Reincarnation -- The foundations of an empire -- Ivan IV and the first imperial expansion -- The crash -- Recovery -- Peter the Great and the breakthrough to the west -- Glorious expansion -- The romantic age of empire -- Descent to destruction -- The construction of a juggernaut -- The high tide of Soviet imperialism -- Autopsy on a deceased empire -- Reinventing Russia.
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ISBN
031236041X
9780312360412
Note
"First published in Great Britain by John Murray (Publishers), a division of Hodder Headline, under the title Russia's empires: their rise and fall: from prehistory to Putin"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-377) and index.
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