Russia: People and Empire

'It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.' Philip Marsden, Spectator

Klappentext It is unlikely that a clearer! more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.' Philip Marsden! Spectator ZusammenfassungIt is unlikely that a clearer! more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.' Philip Marsden! Spectator

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Geoffrey Hosking has been Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London, since 1984. He is the author of the award-winning 'History of the Soviet Union' for Fontana Press. In 1988, Professor Hosking was invited to give the annual BBC Reith lectures and spoke on the subject of Change in Contemporary Soviet Society, in doing so accurately predicting the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union.

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[A] brilliant dual study of Russia's people and empire under the Tsars an elegantly written, humane and rigorous work of empirical history.
MICHAEL BURLEIGH, 'Independent on Sunday'

Geoffrey Hosking's 'History of the Soviet Union' remains the standard text on the subject. With this more ambitious book, he can put in a claim to the previous 350 years as well. It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.
PHILIP MARSDEN, 'Spectator'

[Geoffrey Hosking's] excellent new book is a fine starting point for anyone who wishes to grasp the uneasy relationship between empire, state and nation in Russian history. This is a serious and thoughtful book on a difficult subject, but it is so well written and so clear in its explanations of Russia's past that it can safely be recommended to readers who know nothing about Tsarist history.
DOMINIC LIEVEN, 'Sunday Telegraph'

[Hosking's] knowledge of religion is his greatest strength, and he puts it at the centre of his argument. I have never read a better explanation of why Orthodoxy failed to integrate the Russian nation 'Russia: People and Empire' is the most interesting and authoritative account of Russian imperial history in English. It is a masterful synthesis, intelligent and lucid, passionately argumentative, but always fair, which should be read by everyone who wants to understand the origins of Russia's predicament today.
ORLANDO FIGES, 'The Times'

Hosking's book is a 'tour de force' of historical argument, vividly written, courageously argumentative, unafraid to take on accursed questions of Russian identity and destiny.
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF, 'Observer'

Zusammenfassung
'It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.' Philip Marsden, Spectator