TY  - BOOK
AU  - Longworth,Philip
AU  - Longworth,Philip
TI  - Russia: the once and future empire from pre-history to Putin 
SN  - 031236041X
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - History
KW  - Russia
KW  - Soviet Union
N1  - "First published in Great Britain by John Murray (Publishers), a division of Hodder Headline, under the title Russia's empires: their rise and fall: from prehistory to Putin"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-377) and index; The Russians : who are they? -- The first Russian state -- Reincarnation -- The foundations of an empire -- Ivan IV and the first imperial expansion -- The crash -- Recovery -- Peter the Great and the breakthrough to the west -- Glorious expansion -- The romantic age of empire -- Descent to destruction -- The construction of a juggernaut -- The high tide of Soviet imperialism -- Autopsy on a deceased empire -- Reinventing Russia
ER  -