Article: Empires, from Roman to Russian

Article: A Toff's Guide to the Russian Empire Tuesday Book: Empire: the ...
The Independent - London;  September 19, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... burdened readers with so much personal detail. We are told that Dominic Lieven's grandfather's brother was Prince Anatol Lieven ... he knew who had correctly predicted how the demise of the Soviet Union would happen", one begins to imagine that he sees writing ...

Article: Books: A voice in the wilderness The most famous Soviet dissident ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  February 15, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... belief system and the myths on which the Soviet Union rested. The reforms introduced after ... technology which sprang from it. If the Soviet Union was the nastiest child of the radical ... materialism almost as much as he abhorred the Soviet Union. But perhaps our civilisation really ...

Article: Books: The devil is in the detail Dominic Lieven ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 12, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... power in Berlin and Moscow. To impose such immense sacrifices in the name of so naive and flawed a vision makes Lenin one of the greatest criminals of the 20th century. Dominic Lieven is Professor of Russian History and Politics at the LSE.

Article: Books: The empire that Russia lost Dominic Lieven ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 2, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Russia: People and Empire 1552-1917 by Geoffrey Hosking HarperCollins, pounds 20 THE HISTORY of tsarist Russia is more important now than at any time during the last 80 years. Deprived of its empire and having abandoned communism, a bewildered Russia is seeking in its pre-Soviet past to find

Article: Review: Books: Why empires fall apart Anne Applebaum on a ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Empire and its Rivals by Dominic Lieven John Murray, pounds ... systems" in the Soviet Union's wake. Politicians ... existed before. Now Dominic Lieven, one of Britain ... about Russia and the Soviet Union, it also gleefully ...

Article: After the Fall
The Washington Post;  December 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia ... territory of the former Soviet Union -- a task made simpler ... throughout the former Soviet Union as a result of the Soviet dissolution but, as Dominic Lieven of the London School ...

Article: FCC Allows Increased Phone Service to Soviet Union
The Washington Post;  August 22, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... of snarled telephone traffic to the Soviet Union, the Federal Communications Commission ... service between the United States and the Soviet Union. The FCC action will allow American ... the major international carrier in the Soviet Union, and IDB Telecommunications Services ...