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<p><p>the Soviet Union Crumbles And Russia Rises From The Rubble, Once Again The Great Nation&#151;a Perfect Scenario, But For One Point&#58; Russia Was Never A Nation. And This, Says The Eminent Historian Geoffrey Hosking, Is At The Heart Of The Russians' Dilemma Today, As They Grapple With The Rudiments Of Nationhood. His Book Is About The Russia That Never Was, A Three-hundred-year History Of Empire Building At The Expense Of National Identity.<p>russia Begins In The Sixteenth Century, With The Inception Of One Of The Most Extensive And Diverse Empires In History. Hosking Shows How This Undertaking, The Effort Of Conquering, Defending, And Administering Such A Huge Mixture Of Territories And Peoples, Exhausted The Productive Powers Of The Common People And Enfeebled Their Civic Institutions. Neither Church Nor State Was Able To Project An Image Of Russian-ness That Could Unite Elites And Masses In A Consciousness Of Belonging To The Same Nation. Hosking Depicts Two Russias, That Of The Gentry And Of The Peasantry, And Reveals How The Gap Between Them, Widened By The Tsarist State's Repudiation Of The Orthodox Messianic Myth, Continued To Grow Throughout The Eighteenth And Ninete

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Author

Hosking, Geoffrey A

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674781184

Category

history

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Humanities

Rating

3.75 / 5 (80 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14