The Fragile Empire: A History of Imperial Russia

By Alexander Chubarov

Book Overview

This book re-examines Russia's imperial past from the reign of Peter the Great to the collapse of tsarism in 1917. It presents pre-revolutionary Russia as an empire of great internal contradictions. A... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826411886
• ISBN13: 9780826411884
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A Key to 300 Years of Russian History

The book seams to me a real treasure for teaching Russian History of XVIII - XX centuries. While it is handy it is reach enough of important facts and comments on the evolution and decline of the Great Empire. It embraces the best of the both worlds giving us a very careful and well balanced epic picture based on some of the most important soarces as well as on the academic literature. Fortunately the book is free of ideological bias so typical for russian studies of almost any origin.Neatly structured, supported by detailed notes, chronology, index, and extreamly useful "Tables and Statisics" the book serves as an almost perfect key to 300 years of The Great but Fragile Empire and at the same time offers its own unprejudised analysis of primary problems of Russian and comparative history. The only dissapointment i have is that the author stops short of writing about the modern Russia.