Description
Author: Geoffrey Hosking, paper back, 768 pages. Published by the Harvard University Press.
In a sweeping narrative this book follows the country’s history from the first emergence of the Slavs in the 6th century AD to Russia’s persistent appearances in today’s headlines. This is a monumental story of the competing legacies of power uneasily balanced between the ideas and realities of Asian empire, European culture and Byzantine religion; of a constantly shifting identity from Kievan Rus to Muscovy to Russian Empire to Soviet Union to Russian Federation.