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Description
How Russia Got Big accounts for Russia's changing physical scope over some seven centuries.
Beginning with the small principality of Moscow in the early 14th century, the book recounts the construction of the world's largest country in the form of the Russian Empire and the USSR, as well as its collapse and territorial restriction on two separate occasions. Integrating topics of geography, diplomacy, migration, and environment, and supported by 15 helpful maps, Paul W. Werth ranges across three continents and accordingly asserts a significant role for Russia in world history. Werth contemplates different ways of conceptualizing territorial possession and related understandings of sovereignty, authority, and belonging. The result is a grand story from a bird's-eye view, one that revels in details connected with territorial oddities such as exclaves, diplomatic compounds, and spheres of influence and which is as concise as it is wholly original.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Definitions & Concepts
PART I – The Grand Narrative
2. Imperial Growth, 1300-1914
3. Collapse and Reassertion, 1914-1946
4. Collapse 2.0 and Crimean Compensation, 1946-present
PART II – Complexities
5. Russia Within
6. Exclaves, Occupations, and Spheres
Conclusion
Further Reading
Index
Product details
| Published | 21 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 144 |
| ISBN | 9781350284005 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Series | Russian Shorts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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