Lays out the links between political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena that have made Russia what it is - a world at once familiar and mysterious to Western observers.
Russian history is ready to be reinterpreted. This book puts Russia into a fresh historical perspective and enables the reader to consider the weight of the past resting on current attempts to fash...
Hosking follows the countrys history from the Slavs' first emergence in the historical record in the sixth century C.E. to the Russians persistent appearances in todays headlines. The second editio...