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How Russia Got Big

How Russia Got Big

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How Russia Got Big accounts for Russia's changing physical scope over some seven centuries. Even people who know little about Russia know that it is big. This concise book tells the story of how it became so. Beginning with the small principality of Moscow in the early 14th century, Paul W. Werth recounts the construction of the world's largest country-from Muscovy and the Russian Empire through the USSR to today's Russian Federation-as well as its territorial retrenchment and even collapse on several occasions. Integrating geography, diplomacy, war, and imperial politics, the book ranges across three continents and recounts diverse interactions with neighboring polities and peoples. Werth likewise contemplates different ways of conceptualizing territorial possession and related understandings of sovereignty, authority, and belonging. The result, illustrated with 29 original maps, is a grand story from a bird's-eye view that reveals deeper rhythms to Russia's territorial history involving alternations of enlargement and crisis-ones that continue in our own day.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
184
Release Date:
2025-09-18
Publication Date:
2025-09-18
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350284009
ISBN13:
9781350284005
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
204 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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