Serhii Plokhy

Gebundenes Buch

Lost Kingdom

The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation

Beschreibung

"In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand the confluence of Russian imperialism and nationalism today by delving into the nation's history. Spanning over 500 years, from the end of the Mongol rule to the present day, Plokhy shows how leaders from Ivan the Terrible to Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin exploited existing forms of identity, warfare, and territorial expansion to achieve imperial supremacy. An authoritative and masterful account of Russian nationalism, Lost Kingdom chronicles the story behind Russia's belligerent empire-building quest"--

Autor

Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. The New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe and Nuclear Folly , Plokhy is an award-winning author of numerous books. He lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780465098491
• ISBN-10: 0465098495
• Artikelnr.: 47708295

Rezensionen

Lost Kingdom tells the story of how the history of Russia was being written when that history was being made. . . A singularly fascinating account of Russian nationalism through the ages Charles Clover Financial Times