Lost Kingdom
:A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin
Editorial Penguin Books Ltd
Fecha de edición enero 2018 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780141983134
432 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Resumen del libro
In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this violation of national sovereignty was in fact only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand the merging of imperialism and nationalism in Russia today by delving into its history.
Spanning over two thousand years, from the end of the Mongol rule to the present day, Plokhy shows how leaders from Ivan the Terrible to Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin have exploited existing forms of identity, warfare and territorial expansion to achieve imperial supremacy. A strikingly ambitious book, Lost Kingdom chronicles the long and belligerent history of Russia's empire and nation-building quest.
Biografía del autor
(Rusia, 1957) creció y estudió en Ucrania y ha desarrollado la mayor parte de su carrera en Canadá y Estados Unidos. Es catedrático de Historia de Ucrania en Harvard, donde también dirige el Ukranian Research Institute. Es autor, entre otros títulos, de Yalta: The Price of Peace (2010) y El último imperio. Los días finales de la Unión Soviética (2014).
