A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

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Russia’s epic and dramatic history told in an accessible, lively, and short form, from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin via Catherine the Great, the Russian Revolution and the fall of the USSR.

Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethnic group, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it has been subject to invasion by outsiders, from Vikings to Mongols, from Napoleon’s French to Hitler’s Germans. In order to forge an identity, it has mythologized its past to unite its people and to signal strength to outsiders.

In A Short History of Russia, Mark Galeotti explores the history of this fascinating, glorious, desperate, and exasperating country through two intertwined issues: the way successive influences from beyond its borders have shaped Russia and the way Russians came to terms with this influence, writing and rewriting their past to understand their present and try to influence their future. In turn, this self-invented history has come to affect not just their constant nation-building project, but also their relations with the world.

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Autores Mark Galeotti
Mark Galeotti

Nascido no Reino Unido em 1965, Mark Galeotti é hoje um dos grandes especialistas em questões russas. Antes de assumir a função de investigador no Instituto de Relações Internacionais de Praga, foi, entre outros cargos, professor na Universidade de Nova Iorque e conselheiro especial do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros britânico. Estudou História na Universidade de Cambridge e doutorou-se em Política na London School of Economics. Assinou mais de uma dezena de livros e colabora regularmente com a imprensa e a televisão.

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