Военная история / Russia and the Russians: From Earliest Times to the Present, 2nd Edition

Название: Russia and the Russians: From Earliest Times to the Present, 2nd Edition
Автор(ы): Geoffrey Hosking
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2012
ISBN: 978-0718193607
Страниц: 786
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 253 MB

Geoffrey Hosking has been one of the foremost historians of Russia and her Empire for more than twenty years. He traces Russia's history from the settlement of Kiev through to the present day. He argues that two nation-building movements, one based on a messianic vision of Russia's destiny as God's people, the other a modernising and expansive imperial project of administration and assimilation, have clashed since the rise of Tsarism. These two nascent national identities offer a chance to compare & trace continuities in Tsarist and Soviet Russia & allow us to appreciate more fully the recurrent themes that have at times, and not least this century, appeared wholly without precedent in the history of the world.