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Russia: People and Empire: 1552â€“1917

By (author) Geoffrey Hosking

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â€˜It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russiansâ€™ extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.â€™ Philip Marsden, Spectator Geoffrey Hoskingâ€™s landmark book provides us with a new prism through which to view Russian history by posing the apparently simple question: what is Russiaâ€™s national identity? Hosking answers this with brilliant originality: his thesis is that the needs of Russiaâ€™s empire prevented the creation of a Russian nation. The Tsars, and before them the Grand Dukes of Moscow, were empire builders rather than nation builders and, as consequence, profoundly alienated ordinary Russians.

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