Empire : the Russian Empire and its rivals
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書誌事項
Empire : the Russian Empire and its rivals
John Murray, 2000
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book explores the role of empire in world history. What does it mean to be an empire? How does one empire differ from another? Why does an empire rise and why fall? Why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others?;On an unusually wide canvas, Dominic Lieven addresses all these questions. His central focus is on the rise and fall of empire in Russia and the Soviet Union. The dynamics of empire's history in Russia are explored through comparisons not only between the tsarist and Soviet periods but also between Russia, its great contemporaries and rivals of the Ottoman, Habsburg and British empires, and a broad range of other cases from ancient China to Rome to the present-day United States, Indonesia, India and the European Union.;Dominic Lieven shows that many of empire's dilemmas still have their force in today's world. His perspective throws light on the current crisis in the former USSR by comparing post-Soviet problems and dangers with the upheavals caused by the collapse of other leading powers' empires.A fresh view of many of today's most intractable issues is also provided, from the troubles in Ulster to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and the fate of Russian, British, German and Asian diasporas stranded by the collapse of empire.
;Here is history on the grandest scale. Dominic Lieven questions assumptions, raises unexpected questions and approaches familiar historical topics from unfamiliar Russian angles. He combines formidable erudition with stimulating readability.
目次
- Part 1 Empire: empire - a word and its meanings
- power and empire in the global context. Part 2 Empires: the British empire
- the Ottoman empire
- the Habsburg empire. Part 3 Russia: the Russian empire - regions, peoples, geopolitics
- the Tsarist state and the Russian people
- Tsarist empire - power, strategy, decline
- the Soviet Union. Part 4 After empire: after empire.
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