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Article: Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals. Dominic Lieven. John Murray. [pound]27.50. 486 pages. ISBN 0-7195-5243-5. The author has made his name primarily as an historian of the Russian Empire but here he does not give us another history of the Romanov dynasty. Rather, this book is as much concerned with empires as political organisations as with the Russian Empire, and with other great empires such as the British, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and Soviet. (The Soviets, he claims, with their cruel barbarism killed the idea of empire.) Prof Lieven's aim is 'to put the history of Russia ...