RUSSIA: PEOPLE AND EMPIRE by Geoffrey Hosking ( 9780006383727 )

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Title:

RUSSIA: PEOPLE AND EMPIRE
1552-1917

By:

Geoffrey Hosking

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0006383726

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HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS

Pub. date:

22 December, 1997

Pages:

576

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`It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.' Philip Marsden, Spectator

Synopsis:

`It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.' Philip Marsden, SpectatorGeoffrey Hosking's landmark book provides us with a new prism through which to view Russian history by posing the apparently simple question: what is Russia's national identity?Hosking answers this with brilliant originality: his thesis is that the needs of Russia's empire prevented the creation of a Russian nation. The Tsars, and before them the Grand Dukes of Moscow, were empire builders rather than nation builders and, as consequence, profoundly alienated ordinary Russians.

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Fontana Press

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