Russia: People and Empire: 1552-1917 (Paperback) by Geoffrey Hosking

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ISBN: 9780006383727
Condition: New
Mass-market paperback
Language: English
Glued binding. B-format paperback. Contains: Unspecified. Includes unspecified.
'It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.' Philip Marsden, Spectator Geoffrey 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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Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Genre
History
Publication date
March, 1998
Pages
576
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9780006383727. New condition. Mass-market paperback. Language: English. Glued binding. B-format paperback. Contains: Unspecified. Includes unspecified. 'It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.' Philip Marsden, Spectator Geoffrey 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.

ISBN: 9780006383727
Condition: New
Mass-market paperback
Language: English
Glued binding. B-format paperback. Contains: Unspecified. Includes unspecified.
'It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.' Philip Marsden, Spectator Geoffrey 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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Paperback

Fiction/nonfiction

Non-Fiction

Genre

History

Publication date

March, 1998

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