The Fragile Empire: A History of Imperial Russia - Brossura

Chubarov, Alexander

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ISBN 10: 0826413080 ISBN 13: 9780826413086

Casa editrice: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2001

Riassunto

With the fall of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the tsarist past has caught up with Russia's present with a vengeance. The process of rethinking the past is not without its pitfalls: the negative evaluations of tsarist Russia, obligatory in the former Soviet Union, have given way to uncritical romanticizing. There has never been a greater need for a fair, balanced interpretation of the tsarist record. This book re-examines Russia's imperial past from the reign of Peter the Great to the collapse of tsarism in 1917. It presents pre-revolutionary Russia as an empire of great internal contradictions. A colossus that extended over one-sixth the earth's landmass, it was ever vulnerable to foreign invasion. It possessed one of the world's largest populations, the majority of whom lived in poverty and discontent. It commanded the world's richest natural resources, yet its productive forces were constricted by the remnants of feudalism. It strove to cement its multiethnic population by systematic Russification, which only stimulated nationalist movements. It gloried in being a people's autocracy' at a time when the regime was increasingly detached from its people. The empire of the tsars became ever more vulnerable until it was shattered by the turmoil of war and revolution. Using the most recent Russian and Western research, the book provides the reader with a good historical basis on which to judge Russia's Soviet experience and her current turbulent transition to democracy..

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alexander Chubarov is Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies at the School of International Studies and Law, Coventry University.

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Book by Chubarov Alexander

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0826413080
• ISBN 13: 9780826413086
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256