Russia's Empires explores the long history of Russia, the Soviet Union, and the present Russian Federation through the lens of empire, analyzing how and why Russia expanded to become the largest country on the globe and how it repeatedly fell under the sway of strong, authoritarian leaders. Authors Valerie A. Kivelson and Ronald Grigor Suny examine how imperial practices shaped choices and limited alternatives. Using the concept of empire, they look at the ways in which ordinary people imagined their position within a non-democratic polity--whether the Muscovite tsardom or the Soviet...
Russia's Empires explores the long history of Russia, the Soviet Union, and the present Russian Federation through the lens of empire, analyz...
Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century later Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny--one of the world's leading historians of the period--explores the historiographical controversies over 1917, Stalinism, and the end of "Communism" and provides an assessment of the achievements, costs, losses and legacies of the choices made by Soviet leaders. While a quarter century after the disintegration of the USSR, the story usually told is one of failure and inevitable collapse, Suny reevaluates the promises, missed...
Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century later Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Rona...