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.
Dominic 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.
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A very great intellectual achievement (Financial Times)
Empire is a quirky hybrid: part straight history, part comparative politics, part international relations, and above all a book which must have been...a real joy to research and write. It is also a joy to read (Anne Applebaum Sunday Telegraph)
Provocative and wise about our (contemporary Western liberal) perceptions of empire...a very great intellectual achievement (John Lloyd Financial Times)
With audacity, originality and imagination, Lieven tries a comparative approach to Russian imperial history...a fascinating, insightful experiment (Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Times)
This is a strange, brave, opinionated and profoundly ambitious book...densely packed and readable (Denis Judd Independent)
Immensely readable, lucid and erudite, this is a masterly account which combines the grand sweep of history with the fascination of detail. (2002-10-18)
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