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Bezig met laden... Restless Empire: A Historical Atlas of Russiadoor Ian Barnes
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A great book. Not only is it well written, but also the book traces Russian history from the beginning and goes up to Putin. The Russian role in defeating Germany in WWII is told well; we in the west pay attention to our own defeat of these monsters. I knew it was difficult but it was also unbelievable. Why these people fought like demons after Stalin wrecked the army by shooting or jailing most of the officers is still unknown; A dispassionate look at a country by a marvelous writer who is now deceased. Most map books have a lot of maps and a little commentary; this has maps on every other page and a written commentary for most of the book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
From the first Slavic migrations to the Romanovs' rise to the Putin era, Russia has endured for centuries as a nation whose sheer size and diversity have challenged its rulers and shaped its identity. Restless Empire illuminates the epic sweep of Russian history in a beautifully illustrated full-color atlas depicting the essential cultural, political, economic, and military developments of Russia's past. Like the double-headed eagle that is its state emblem, Russia has always looked abroad to both the East and the West, searching for secure trade routes, trustworthy allies, and defensible frontiers. Expansion beyond Muscovy's forested confines began in the fifteenth century, when Ivan III rejected Mongol rule and moved into the Russian steppe. The waterways linking the Baltic to the Black and Caspian seas were critical to Russia's development from the Middle Ages onward. The age-old quest to acquire warm-water ports culminated in the construction of St. Petersburg in the eighteenth century, when imperial Russia began to rival Europe's Great Powers. From Ivan the Terrible to Catherine the Great, Lenin and Stalin to Yeltsin and Putin, Russia's rulers have carved their nation's destiny into world history, sometimes bending Russia toward despotism or democracy, internationalism or brusque independence. Russia's titanic conflicts - against the Tatars and Turks, Napoleon, Nazi Germany, and the United States - and its political upheavals from the Time of Troubles to the Soviet Union's downfall, as well as ongoing strife in Chechnya and Crimea, are presented chronologically in accessible text accompanied by detailed maps and illustrations. -- from dust jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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One of the points the author makes is the sheer size of Russia made everything more complicated. The population never really caught up with the geography; although the “Russian hordes” were a boogeyman in Western eyes for years, the Russian population didn’t pass that of France until the nineteenth century. That’s one of the explanations for serfdom – to prevent peasants from just wandering off for better land. And the current population is in decline. It will be interesting to see what things look like in 10 years. ( )