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Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

Door Dominic Lieven

Categorie
Geschiedenis Rusland
Boeknummer
#406058-XR18
Titel
Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals from the Sixteenth Century to the Present
Auteur
Lieven, Dominic
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Random House
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
0712605460
ISBN13
9780712605465
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, small maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting
This ambitious book explores the role of empire in world history. What does it mean to be an empire? How does one empire differ from another? Why does an empire rise and why fall? Why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others?

On an unusually wide canvas, Dominic Lieven addresses all these questions. His central focus is on the rise and fall of empire in Russia and the Soviet Union. The dynamics of empire's history in Russia are explored through comparisons not only between the tsarist and Soviet periods but also between Russia, its great contemporaries and rivals of the Ottoman, Habsburg and British empires, and a broad range of other cases from ancient China and Rome to the present-day United States, Indonesia, India and the European Union.

Dom... (Lees verder)inic Lieven shows that many of empire's dilemmas still have force in today's world. His perspective throws light on the current crisis in the former USSR by comparing post-Soviet problems and dangers with the upheavals caused by the collapse of other leading powers' empires. A fresh view of many of today's most intractable issues is also provided, from the troubles in Ulster to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and the fate of Russian, British, German and Asian diasporas stranded by the collapse of empire.
Pagina's
486
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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